Using Hex genre types

Wes

Hi,
Is it possible to set the category using a hex value instead of the textual representation?

<category lang="en">Special events (Olympic Games, World Cup, etc.)</category>

DeltaMikeCharlie

No, not at the moment.

I am working on a PR that will accept hex genre types, but it is not ready yet.
https://tvheadend.org/d/8512-improvements-to-xmltv-epg-data-extraction

My preferred approach would be like this:

<category lang="en" etsi="0x45">Cricket</category>

There is no ETSI code for Cricket, so provide 'Team Sports' as the ETSI hex code.

Currently, the category string that you provide needs to match the EXACT value that TVH expects or you get nothing.

Wes

I have written a python script that searches the genres from the source and matches them to the ETSI fields.

I don't like the way ETSI deals with the common genres: drama, comedy, romance, etc...

They are all in the 0x10 to 0x1F range. The major grouping for 0x1 is movies. There are a lot of TV shows that fall into those categories, but they are not movies.

Kodi still has the capability of using the OxF or user-defined range (defined in ETSI) for those categories found in the movies. Kodi uses the same text for each of the sub-genre types in the OxF range as defined in the 0x1 range.

The end result is you get the genre text correct, but the cell is not colored for movies. I have tested this by modifying the EPG16.db used by Kodi for EPG program data.

DeltaMikeCharlie

The best that you can do with TVH at the moment is get a list of the genre text descriptions that it recognises and use one of the text descriptions.

https://docs.tvheadend.org/documentation/development/json-api/api-description/epg#epg-content_type-list

http://[TVH_IP]:9981/api/epg/content_type/list?full=1

Unfortunately, this won't get you into the 0xFx area.

Once I have finished working on my PR, getting any genre into TVH via the ETSI hex code will be possible. I have no ETA for this yet. Finishing that PR is currently #3 on my list.

Wes

Is it possible to write the EPG data directly to TVH via a JSON call?

We can query the EPG data with such a call.
https://docs.tvheadend.org/documentation/development/json-api/api-description/epg

DeltaMikeCharlie

Wes Is it possible to write the EPG data directly to TVH via a JSON call?

I don't think so.

tvheadend/tvheadendblob/078a822cf548b37bc474475fa57e48e9604090ee/src/api/api_epg.c#L772C1-L782C5