EPG for NTL Basic

shaf

Hi

I've just installed a Hauppage WinTV PVR150 into an XP PRo box (not MCE). I'm looking for a (preferably free) irish EPG. I've heard that the MCE 2005 has one - but since I don't have that it's no use to me. Has anyone found another option?

Cheers

Talisman

I'm setting up my system at the moment using GBPVR and XMLTV GUI.

GBPVR
XMLTV GUI

Both pieces of software are free. XMLTV can be configured to pull the schedules from the Radio Times website. The only channel it won't have is the new Channel Six.

quozl

I use a radiotimes.co.uk feed as well for my mythtv box. Like Talisman says, it has everything but channel 6. Hopefully they'll add that soon - I don't channel surf anymore so unless it gets added to my EPG I may as well not have it

donspeekinglesh

It also won't have Setanta. At least it doesn't for me anyway.

Talisman

I've partially sorted the issue of the missing channels.

TVxb is a customisable listings grabber. Apparently it's possible to import the xml file created by XMLTV and append the xml for the missing channels - I haven't tried to do that yet, but I have been able to generate the xml for Channel 6.

Addition for the tvxb.ini file to process the Channel 6 listings:

[channel6.ie]
name=Channel 6
url=http://www.channel6.ie/listings/listings.php?date=[day=yy-mm-dd]
tagtr=start=<li,end=</li
tagtd=start=<li,<h1,<h2,<p,end=</li,</h1.</h2,</p
htmlstart=<ul>
htmlend=</ul
special=ignoreptag
start=1
title=2
description=4

Here's my effort to grab the Setanta Sports listings. I haven't got it working yet because I haven't been able to get TVxb to handle the setanta.com website cookie. I've followed the instructions from the pdf file but it's not working for me for some reason.

[SetantaSports]
name=Setanta Sports
url=http://www.setanta.com/portal/systemcontent/tvschedule?open&action=&dateadjust=[relseq=0,1,2,3,4,5,6]&amp;
special=ignorebrtag
start=2
title=5
description=6

Edit: added the "special=ignorebrtag" to the SetantaSports section to handle the different format of Live Events listings.

Talisman

I got the setanta.com cookie working.

The problem was that there was a www.setanta.com cookie which I hadn't copied to the cookies.txt file. I had only added the setanta.com cookies which don't appear to be required.

Here's the all important line for the cookies.txt file.

www.setanta.com	TRUE	/	FALSE	1177909143	UserRegion	ie

donspeekinglesh

That's excellent. Thanks for that. It was straight forward to add in an existing xmltv file - just add the import line. (xmltvimport=where ever)

Is there anyway to get the full 2 weeks listing from Setanta? I can only get up to next Wednesday so far. Adding up to 12 in the relseq didn't help.

Talisman

Setanta's tv schedule listing starts on a Sunday and runs for two weeks so if you update on a Sunday you should be able to grab all the listings for two weeks. I only added the 0-6 sequence because the Channel 6 listings were only available for a week in advance, incidently they have changed their website again so the Channel 6 segment is no longer valid.

Talisman

Here's the updated Channel 6 segment. There's no program descriptions in the new layout unfortunately, but hopefully they'll correct that the next time they change the site.

[channel6.ie]
name=Channel 6
url=http://www.channel6.ie/listings.whtm?date=[day=yy-mm-dd]
tagtr=start=<li,end=</li
tagtd=start=<li,<h1,<h2,<p,end=</li,</h1.</h2,</p
htmlstart=<ul>
htmlend=</ul
special=ignoreptag
start=1
title=1

Talisman

Channel 6 segment updated again to handle new format.

[channel6.ie]
name=Channel 6
url=http://www.channel6.ie/listings.whtm?date=[day=yy-mm-dd]
tagtr=start=<li,end=</li
tagtd=start=<li,<h1,<h2,<p,<div,end=</li,</h1.</h2,</p,</div
htmlstart=<div class="mainBoxWide" id="listings">
special=ignoreptag
start=1
title=2
description=5

youcancallmeal

Is it possible for tvxb to work with wintv2000. I installed gb-pvr but dont really like it(tuning channels in it is nightmare)

Talisman

youcancallme>al wrote:

Is it possible for tvxb to work with wintv2000. I installed gb-pvr but dont really like it(tuning channels in it is nightmare)

Channel tuning GBPVR is easy if you use FreqCopy after tuning the channels manually in the Hauppage software.
NTL Channel Frequencies
FreqCopy & Instructions