EPG new shows missing *

Peter Carlson

I am trying to chase down why new shows are missing the trailing * in their titles.
you can see in the xmltv file, it has appended * to the titles

hts@tvh:~/xmltv$ grep "Good Morning Las" xmltv.xml
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas Sunday at 8AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 4:30AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 4:30AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 4:30AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 4:30AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 4:30AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas Saturday at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas Saturday at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas Sunday at 8AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM *</title>
		<title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas at 6AM *</title>

yet in the guide in tvh (and in kodi) there is no *

Peter Carlson

I also looked at the JSON and it's not providing season / series info, nor the appended title

{
"eventId": 67896537,
"serieslinkUri": "ddprogid:///usr/bin/tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite/SH01898387.0000",
"channelName": "KTNV-HD",
"channelUuid": "08dd81e4c0fb210a456aadb73e0b927a",
"channelNumber": "13.1",
"start": 1748259000,
"stop": 1748260800,
"title": "Good Morning Las Vegas at 4:30AM",
"description": "News coverage to start the day.\n\nCategories: news, series",
"category": [
"news",
"series"
],
"subtitled": 1,
"nextEventId": 67896538
},
{
"eventId": 67896538,
"serieslinkUri": "ddprogid:///usr/bin/tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite/SH01898382.0000",
"channelName": "KTNV-HD",
"channelUuid": "08dd81e4c0fb210a456aadb73e0b927a",
"channelNumber": "13.1",
"start": 1748260800,
"stop": 1748264400,
"title": "Good Morning Las Vegas at 5AM",
"description": "News coverage to start the day.\n\nCategories: news, series",
"category": [
"news",
"series"
],
"subtitled": 1,
"nextEventId": 67896539
},

Here is the xmltv entry for one of those:

        <programme start="20250525150000 +0000" stop="20250525153000 +0000" channel="I13.1.30785.gracenote.com">
                <title lang="en">Good Morning Las Vegas Sunday at 8AM *</title>
                <desc lang="en">News /
News coverage to start the day.</desc>
                <category lang="en">News / Current affairs</category>
                <length units="minutes">30</length>
                <icon src="https://gracenote.tmsimg.com/assets/p10662521_b_v9_aa.jpg"/>
                <url>https://tvlistings.gracenote.com//overview.html?programSeriesId=SH01898396&amp;tmsId=SH018983960000</url>
                <episode-num system="dd_progid">SH01898396.0000</episode-num>
                <new/>
                <subtitles type="teletext"/>
        </programme>

It's interesting that zap2xml script is appending the * to the title, but the <new> tag is empty

Peter Carlson

I guess I dont have permissions to edit my own post? In any case, ignore the last sentence of the previous post, I was mis-reading the <new/> tag. So zap2xml IS appending the * and adding the new tag

DeltaMikeCharlie

@Peter Carlson - I just ran a test and the '*' came through OK. My test system is a very recent version.

What version of TVH are you running?

Peter Carlson

weird, it started working again...I guess we can just call this a fluke