tv_grab_uk_rt no more

Rob vh

https://metabroadcast.com/blog/changes-to-atlas-access

Back in December 2011, MetaBroadcast took over from RadioTimes the job of supplying UK linear TV schedule data to the XMLTV community.
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Today we are confirming that this feed will be turned off on 16 June 2016.

I guess it is time to find out why the alternatives didn't work for me.

Rob vh

I got the freesat XMLTV feed working via Schedules Direct with the xmltv driver from https://github.com/kgroeneveld/tv_grab_sd_json Schedules Direct is not free but asks USD 25 p.a. 7 day trial for free.
When I subscribed to http://www.schedulesdirect.org I told it I want the JSON feed for United Kingdom.
At the tvgrab --configure step I gave it country code GBR and postal code EC1 (London). Then feed source 9 for freesat.

The data has all the channels I need and Episode information (more in fact than I got out of Radio Times).

I prefer to have the source of the stuff I install on my pvr, so this works for me. If open source is not your thing, look at webgrabplus.com for a solution.
I experimented with tv_grab_uk_tvguide, but this loads all the detail pages for each show, which just pummels their server.

Adam W

Personally I would always use the over the air Freeview/Freesat/Sky EPGs which are all supported in TVHeadend and properly support EIT record (modifying the recording if the programme is delayed) and any last minute schedule updates! Plus it's free!

Rob vh

I would love to use the OTA EPG but it lacks Episode/Season info, or the Episode info is in the Description field in a variety of formats and parsing code in the epg grabber does not recognize it.

Chris MacIntosh-Dixon

Could you put a few words together about how you set it up?

Ben Crundwell

I'm in the same boat and looking at setting this up at the moment. So far I've figured out:

cd /usr/bin sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kgroeneveld/tv_grab_sd_json/master/tv_grab_sd_json sudo chmod +x tv_grab_sd_json sudo su hts cd /usr/bin tv_grab_sd_json -configure

Then you can restart tvheadend and go intoConfiguration - Channel / EPG - EPG Grabber and select "Schedules Direct JSON API" as the source

I'm still experimenting so would appreciate comments and suggestions

LraiZer @ukcvs

Since a few days after uk rt xmltv moved to atlas api only, there is a small RadioTimes XMLTV emulator tool that reads data from opentv epg and writes output in rt xmltv data format to create compatible rt epg files. If this code is now of use here, since rt xmltv depreciation has finally been realized and is complete?
https://github.com/LraiZer/RadiotimesXmltvEmulator