Problem with RT Listings

Discussion of Version 3 and developing lua grabbers
rickgillyon
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Post by rickgillyon » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:10 pm

The data now hasn't been updated since 29/03...maybe they haven't yet automated the updates?

MotoBarSteward
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Post by MotoBarSteward » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:21 pm

I bet there are a load of guys in IT who won't be getting much sleep tonight! http://www.radiotimes.com is completely 'off air'. I guess your your mate was right when he said he had more important things to worry about!

brewston
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Post by brewston » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:32 pm

In a strange kind of way, thats reassuring. At least it means last weeks upgrade is still going on and that the xmltv stuff hasn't just been forgotten about

Tim

rickgillyon
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Post by rickgillyon » Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:24 pm

Updated today but not being served, too many timeouts...

melearp
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Post by melearp » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:06 pm

I managed a full grab just a few minutes ago with apparently no problem. However the listing as displayed in GBPVR has a lot of holes, especially in BBC1 and 2. Do others concur?

rickgillyon
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Post by rickgillyon » Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:16 pm

No, mine looks pretty complete up to midnight 19th.

Main problem seems to be some First Runs look like reruns, and still no episode numbers... :x

melearp
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Post by melearp » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:06 am

I definately have only got BBC1 and 2 out to about 5 days. I use BBC1 North West and BBC2 North West. Are they discriminating against us northerners?

rickgillyon
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Post by rickgillyon » Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:47 am

Not northerners because I'm using North East!

black sky
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Post by black sky » Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:03 pm

Just did a grab of some channels from RT and seems fine.
BBC1 and BBC2 NI out to the 19th looks good. Nothing wrong so far.....

melearp
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Post by melearp » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:15 pm

North West has been updated is is now full out to the 18th - yes.

martint123
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Post by martint123 » Sat May 05, 2007 4:28 pm

I've just noticed BBC1 BBC2 and ITV Yorkshire have run out of data from the Radio Times.
Looking at the RT data, it looks like the generic BBC1, BBC2 and Anglia ITV have over 100k of data whereas my local ones have 2k and looks like local variations only.
Oh Dear!

alanbirtles
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Post by alanbirtles » Sat May 05, 2007 5:16 pm

the website listings are the same, this probably wont get fixed till tuesday either.
To work around this problem make sure caching is enabled in your grabber and save these files to your cahce (change the file names to your local channel numbers which can be found in settings\uk_rt\channels.lua)
bbc1:
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat
bbc2:
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/105.dat
itv anglia:
http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/24.dat

martint123
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Post by martint123 » Sun May 06, 2007 12:34 pm

Many thanks for that workaround Alan =- much appreciated and works a treat.

Martin

joolzhaines
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Re: Problem with RT Listings

Post by joolzhaines » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:19 pm

FLEURS wrote:I have been using XMLTV with the RadioTimes grabber for some time now to populate the EPG for my GBPVR setup. In recent days it seems to have stopped working. I get the info for some channels (e.g. BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 London) but not others (e.g. BBC1 East, ITV1 Anglia, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4)

Any ideas? Help please!
Sorry to bother you, how did to get xmltv to put the correct source channels in gbpvr eg 101 BBC1?

Thanks

Joolz

martint123
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Re: Problem with RT Listings

Post by martint123 » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:27 pm

joolzhaines wrote:
FLEURS wrote:I have been using XMLTV with the RadioTimes grabber for some time now to populate the EPG for my GBPVR setup. In recent days it seems to have stopped working. I get the info for some channels (e.g. BBC1, BBC2, ITV1 London) but not others (e.g. BBC1 East, ITV1 Anglia, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4)

Any ideas? Help please!
Sorry to bother you, how did to get xmltv to put the correct source channels in gbpvr eg 101 BBC1?

Thanks

Joolz
Someone wrote a tool to update channel numbers - it may do the trick for you. *backup your database first ;)
http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?t=30827

Martin

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