@ gorski Thank You , for starting this thread. Thanks go to those that respond as well. Because in this case "gOOGLE" is not your friend.
What is the relationship between CrossEPG and the EPG included in OpenPLi image, please?
Then, when we know how they interact, what would be the options in setting them up?
In that case we can knowingly choose the best options for ourselves...
OpenPLi has ON/OFF for various types of EPG coming from a TP.
Cross EPG uses EPG downloadable from the net.
So, can CrossEPG over-ride OpenPLi or v.v.?
Is there double-entry problem?
What do we do exactly?
There is only one single EPG store, which is held in memory. Enigma dumps this store into epg.dat when it stops, and reads it back in when it starts, to avoid loss of EPG data. While running, the epg.dat file isn't used, it purely a backup mechanism.
Data is stored on service reference and timestamp. The last one that updates an entry wins. It doesn't matter what the source is, EIT, XMLTVEPG plugin, CrossEPG, or any of the other EPG readers present in Enigma.
What is crossegp/ext.epg.dat ? I ask, as when I (power off/on) I can reload by choice epg from crossepg but using only xmltvepg loses its data and I have to re-run it again to get the data back.
Actually, there are different epg prio levels. Long term custom data has a low prio, normal eit has a higher prio, now/next eit has the highest prio, because it is supposed to be the most accurate.
Xmltv epg imports have a rather low prio, anything OTA will override it.
However, I do not know how crossepg imports it's data, and with which prio. We didn't develop it, and personally I've never used it (for my personal use, the OTA readers which we have in e2 suffice).
Also, note that even though high prio events override lower prio events, you could still end up with duplicate entries, as start/end times of imported data might not match, and event id's will be different.
I have been trying to get a happy EPG over 28e,23.5e19e & 13e.
Until someone advises me better.
I use both crossepg and xmltvimport.
crossepg for MHW-spannish TV & OpenTV for UK.
xmltvimort for all other providers across my satellites/providers.
It would great if someone could help with this as a wiki/stickie
Best regards to all ColinB
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