API: DVR Entry, correct field for EPG event id?

Sveni2211

Hi. Currently i'm migrating my own recording and management solution from Windows / DVB Viewer Service to Linux / TV Headend.
In the TV Headend API i have a question to the fields for a recording entry (for example in upcoming timer). I'm able to create timers with time codes, channel id and title. But where to put the event ID from EPG?
The output of dvr/entry/class says, the field dvb_eid is u16. But in epg/events/grid the id field is u32. And if i look to the values for example for the german channel "ONE HD", this values are to big for u16. So ist u16 a mistake?
There is a second field for DVR entry named "broadcast". This is u32. But the description says only "Broadcast.". Hmm, should this be the correct? Or is the source in EPG grid not the id field?

davep

Sveni2211 When creating a timer using dvr/entry/create_by_event, you supply the eventId value from epg/events/grid, along with the UUID of the profile for the recording.

Flole

The Webinterface is using the API, so when in doubt (or when the documentation seems wrong) you can always just use the webinterface to perform the action you want to perform and then check the network traffic to see how it did that.

Ulrich Buck

There is

the TVH eventId (assigned by TVH, uniquely allocated within the TVH EPG database) and
the dvb_eid (assigned by the DVB broadcaster, uniquely allocated within a service)

Two different things to the best of my knowledge.
According to DVB standard "ETSI EN 300 468 V1.11.1" dvb_eid is a "16-bit field".
In the DVB standard this field is called event_id.