Sky Auto Channel Numbering

Anonymous · 2014-03-04T14:19:03+00:00

So I may have bitten off far more than I can chew here but... I have been experimenting with the idea of region-aware automatic channel numbering for Sky UK...

Baz Cooper

I have XBMC Android TV BOX

Evo Xfinity

Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> Baz Cooper wrote:
> > How do you run this script, cant find any instructions.
>
> From terminal:
> [...]
>
> Obviously you'll need to have edited it to your requirements first & have perl (along with libjson-perl & libwww-perl) installed.
>

> Hope this helps. :)

mpmc

Baz Cooper wrote:
> I have XBMC Android TV BOX
>
> Evo Xfinity
>
>
> Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> > Baz Cooper wrote:
> > > How do you run this script, cant find any instructions.
> >
> > From terminal:
> > [...]
> >
> > Obviously you'll need to have edited it to your requirements first & have perl (along with libjson-perl & libwww-perl) installed.
> >

> > Hope this helps. :)

Ah, I see if you can't install perl on the box then I think you're going to struggle, although you could get someone else to run the script on their machine (with a dish and tuner pointed at 28E) and give them access to your box over the net to populate it. But that being said I've no idea if that would work but there's only one way to find out!

Try asking on IRC, #hts on freenode :)

Baz Cooper

I have an enigma2 box with autoboquet. is there a way automatically update the channels from the enigma2 box to tvheadend?

Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> Baz Cooper wrote:
> > I have XBMC Android TV BOX
> >
> > Evo Xfinity
> >
> >
> > Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> > > Baz Cooper wrote:
> > > > How do you run this script, cant find any instructions.
> > >
> > > From terminal:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > Obviously you'll need to have edited it to your requirements first & have perl (along with libjson-perl & libwww-perl) installed.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps. :)
>
> Ah, I see if you can't install perl on the box then I think you're going to struggle, although you could get someone else to run the script on their machine (with a dish and tuner pointed at 28E) and give them access to your box over the net to populate it. But that being said I've no idea if that would work but there's only one way to find out!
>

> Try asking on IRC, #hts on freenode :)

Geoff Geoff

this is brilliant something I've been wanting for a while. however none of the icons work as they are linked to tv.sky.com is there something I can sort?

another question - I'm thinking of starting from scratch with tvheadend as been bits added and removed. running this pearl script is there items (installation steps) that I don't have to do on tvheadend when installing.

Also can someone show me how to drag this ini file from king sat. and again when inmported - can I skip a few steps in scanning the channels?

Thanks in advance :)

Rob Rob

Geoff Geoff wrote:
> this is brilliant something I've been wanting for a while. however none of the icons work as they are linked to tv.sky.com is there something I can sort?
>
> another question - I'm thinking of starting from scratch with tvheadend as been bits added and removed. running this pearl script is there items (installation steps) that I don't have to do on tvheadend when installing.
>
> Also can someone show me how to drag this ini file from king sat. and again when inmported - can I skip a few steps in scanning the channels?
>

> Thanks in advance :)

The icons should work, it's a bug with tvheadend itself with them only working unreliably.
There have been times in the past all icons have loaded straight away, other times keep getting 404 errors in the tvheadend log even though icons have been verified to being available.
It's relatred to some hardcoded cacheing folder that doesn't exist where it's looking...or something.

Anonymous

Hi guys,

Sorry I've been super super busy with my real job recently.

I've been sad about the lack of HD channels available on Sky which made me return to my script!

So I've hacked the script to default to an SD channel list and, then check if an HD equivalent is available (eg Free-to-air non-encrypted HD channels). If there is an HD equivalent it will use this instead.

Its quite slow as it manually goes through each channel to see if it can successfully decrypt the stream (about 5-10mins on my machine)

Just wondering if there is any appetite for this and I'll clean up the code and make it less of a hack and more of a feature!

Running the script with my setup now means I get channels I miss such Sky One and Sky Atlantic albeit in SD but better than nothing IMO!

Geoff Geoff

Do all your icons work? are they added automatically and you do not need to run any other programs like matchIcons.sh?

Rob Rob

Jonathan Kempson wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Sorry I've been super super busy with my real job recently.
>
> I've been sad about the lack of HD channels available on Sky which made me return to my script!
>
> So I've hacked the script to default to an SD channel list and, then check if an HD equivalent is available (eg Free-to-air non-encrypted HD channels). If there is an HD equivalent it will use this instead.
>
> Its quite slow as it manually goes through each channel to see if it can successfully decrypt the stream (about 5-10mins on my machine)
>
> Just wondering if there is any appetite for this and I'll clean up the code and make it less of a hack and more of a feature!
>

> Running the script with my setup now means I get channels I miss such Sky One and Sky Atlantic albeit in SD but better than nothing IMO!

I'm sure that would be appreciated by all, certainly I can say this would be a great improvement given the unfortunate recent developments.
Thanks for all the hard work, fantastic work you've done with this.

Rob Rob

Geoff Geoff wrote:

> Do all your icons work? are they added automatically and you do not need to run any other programs like matchIcons.sh?

Like said, it's hit and miss, I've had some installs where the icons all appear straight away. Some where a few load and some where none load with 404 errors.
It seems once it's stopped working once, it's hard to know how to reset it all so it has a proper attempt again if that makes sense.

Geoff Geoff

thanks guys.. as you can see I'm a bit of a beginner. What I'm finding slightly confusing is, what things this brilliant script replaces with things I don't need to do on tv headend install.

I've only started learning linux, and really couldn't find a guide from step 1. so glued all information together. Do you think this script runs better compiling the tvheadend code so you have various options on using the one on the repo?

This is my 6th installation of tvheadend as if things don't work get carried away with all threads and end up putting much more on there than needed.!!!

Geoff Geoff

Hi - I've done a new build again - as had server failure and its the latest unstable release, when running the script its coming up with

malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /usr/share/perl5/JSON.pm line 171.

any ideas?

Thanks

Dale Taylor

Have you got libjson-perl and libwww-perl installed? If not that then try redownloading the script. When I first downloaded it some how it was broken.

Geoff Geoff

all software is installed. and I've redownloaded and still doesn't work. :(

thanks for quick reply.

Geoff Geoff

looking into this error when looking at line 171 on JSON.pm this is line 171

return $json->decode( $_[0] );

}

any suggestions?

Dale Taylor

Are you running the latest git? wasn't clear in your post. I know the api changed at some point. So if you got tvheadend from a packaged system it mite have the old api in it. This script is for the newer api only.

Other than that I don't know what's wrong. I kept changing stuff and would end up with other lines being a problem.

Geoff Geoff

hi - im running Tvheadend 3.9.1367~gca742e0~trusty the unstable version if thats any help?

Geoff Geoff

its probably something i havent done

here my config as well - and done what was suggested in the posts above

use URI::Escape;

use List::Util qw(first);

my $data = "4097";

my $region = "10";

my $tag_channels = 1;
my $tvh_user = "geoff";
my $tvh_pass = "*****";
my $tvh_ip = "localhost";
my $tvh_proto = "http";
my $tvh_port = "9981";
my $tvh_tag = "AutoChan";

my $icons_enabled = 1;

Geoff Geoff

tried everything... no luck :( spend a few hours on it... everything else is working ok on it - so don't really want to start again.

perl ./autobouquets.pl

malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /usr/share/perl5/JSON.pm line 171.

any other ideas or advise?

Anonymous

Hey Geoff,

It sounds like something is broken when trying to access the tvheadend API. What happens if you go to the following URL?

http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@TVH_IP:9981/api/channeltag/list?enum=true

Obviously replace USERNAME, PASSWORD and TVH_IP with relevant values.

Also, do you see this error immediately after running the script or is there a short pause?

Geoff Geoff

i download a file straight away, and in that file is

{"entries": [{"key": "3985a1ac8fc061c8674efa654151b443","val": "TV channels"},{"key": "b3a195dc16259139ccc597461b7cd3af","val": "AutoChan"},{"key": "5cc8791947b2f21e06dc703cb7322b81","val": "SDTV"},{"key": "1794f9f4f6525b39eef79e861b0db5ac","val": "HDTV"},{"key": "a832692d815afc9aac55aab9d77d4f54","val": "ARQIVA"},{"key": "a75bb843ea884768d69671398e21e45c","val": "Radio"},{"key": "bade3384dafb31fb6ef20d7490426dd1","val": "XBMC"}]}

AutoChan - was one i manually created to help the script along a bit.

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