XMLTV / EIT

James Huxtable

I'm trying to get my head around how the XMLTV and EIT epg's are merged. At the moment I use the EIT, but I can get additional details (rating, episode, genre) if I use XMLTV. So I've enabled an internal grabber and I've got both running, but I have no idea what the consequence of this is and the documentation seems sparse regarding it.

Does anyone know how merges are handled?

Additionally, I guess it's not possible just to mine individual details from the XML and expand the EIT epg? I quite like the extra details (although the XMLTV grabber is dog slow), but I've been hit before with stale listings and it's pain when recording, so don't want to completely rely on XMLTV.

Any guidance would be appreciated!
Cheers

mpmc

IIRC epg data is no longer merged with 4.1, I think it applies to 4.0 as well but I can't be sure.

James Huxtable

Mark Clarkstone wrote:

> IIRC epg data is no longer merged with 4.1, I think it applies to 4.0 as well but I can't be sure.

Ahh, that's interesting. I'm using one of the nightlies from a few days ago, so I guess this could well be the case.

Do you know if there's an epg priority in place? Can I prefer EIT over XMLTV on some channels and not others?

Off the top of my head, if that's the case, I would have to select specific channels for XMLTV and specific for EIT. Which leads me to ask then, if a channel is XMLTV will the recording still examine the OTA details to adjust times before the recording starts, or will it blindly follow the XMLTV?

Cheers
Huxy

mpmc

James Huxtable wrote:
> Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> > IIRC epg data is no longer merged with 4.1, I think it applies to 4.0 as well but I can't be sure.
>
> Ahh, that's interesting. I'm using one of the nightlies from a few days ago, so I guess this could well be the case.

> Do you know if there's an epg priority in place? Can I prefer EIT over XMLTV on some channels and not others?

Yes you can set the EPG priority, Configuration -> Channel / EPG -> EPG Grabber Modules.

> Off the top of my head, if that's the case, I would have to select specific channels for XMLTV and specific for EIT. Which leads me to ask then, if a channel is XMLTV will the recording still examine the OTA details to adjust times before the recording starts, or will it blindly follow the XMLTV?

I could be wrong here but I believe it'll use the dates and times defined in the epg data and not the ones defined in the EIT.

>
> Cheers

> Huxty

Jaroslav Kysela

In latest code, information is not merged, because we don't know which information is correct. You may just play with priorities, so if one EPG source fails for a reason, the other can replace it.

So, if the EPG event is set by XMLTV grabber, EIT grabber cannot override it, only XMLTV can update the data. The OTA EPG time updates are not propagated to the EPG events from XMLTV.

Jaroslav Kysela

Note - it's 4.1 specific... The 4.0 merged all incoming data.

James Huxtable

Thanks for your responses guys. Has cleared a few things up for me.

Will play around with priorities and choose specific channels for XMLTV.

Cheers
Huxy