45 replies to this topic

[MiLo]

The idea of a universal pack that installs on all images and imports XMLTV + epg.dat sources is a great one...

And an easy one too.
If the image creator just links in the importer bitbake recipe, the importer is automaticaly built and adapted in the image feed, and dependencies get linked in as well, without bothering end users with all kind of patches and manual actions to get it to work properly.

You have to consider that the PLi team had perhaps some reason to deactivate the epg.dat import feature...

Instability was the main reason for not advertising the feature. Also the epg.dat method wastes a considerable amount of RAM because it can't be properly filtered, and it can't function on systems without special patches. Besides those drawbacks, it doesn't really seem a useful feature since a typical import of a 100k events takes about 2 minutes, and hardly has any effect on the box while running.

[rtzhjgg0]

...without bothering end users with all kind of patches and manual actions to get it to work properly.

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[doglover]

The Problem of alle EPG from download is 60% of the EPGs for the channels are wrong, old or from a other channel e.g. nat Geo Wild has the EPG from Sky Sport 1 or discovery channel the epg from a other channel and many more.

We would appreciate the fact, that mismatched channels are reported. We will correct them.

Finding here the remark that 60 % of our channels have the wrong epg hurts, especially if nobody reports any errors.

Willy

[doglover]

Furthermore, the EPG of Nat Geo Wild is simply correct on my box.

So telling porky's hurts even more.

Willy

[shax]

@MiLo
We agree to disagree.

[brandobras]

Hello,

i have been using epg-import without any problems but lately (last month more or less) it's not able to import epg for Italy premium channels. The setup seems correct. Any suggestions about how  to fix this issue?

 

thank you very much for your help