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[doglover]

The maintainers for crossepg know where to get the Rytec updates.  They have build in this information in crossepg.

If you do not get this info, you are probably using an image which does not provide an update of crossepg .  Or you installed a rogue version of crossepg.

 

I will not post the the configuration here on the web, as we had severe problems with this in the past.

 

Can you tell which image you use?

 

Or better still use an good image like OpenPLi, OpenATV or OpenVIX and use XMLTVimport (or EPGimport which it is called in some images).

 

Willy

[VirtuallyMore]

Ah yes you are right, it was an old image causing problem, new image has no problem.

 

But still we no longer get the episode numbers combined in the titles any more ever since I last mentioned it some months ago... I do wonder why this change happened, why it's now the basic title only in the listings (with just the eit file having the episode numbers) which is no different than basic open-sky broadcast :/

So all recorded files and listings are named the same in the list, having to select each one individually to show the episode info, kinda lame to take a step back in technology like this (even if it was an unintended improvement).

But thanks anyway, a basic listings EPG is better than no EPG

[doglover]

That "Feature" of displaying the episode numbers in the title is a actually a bug in crossepg.

 

If you really want it, you could ask the maintainers of crossepg to bring this back.

I cannot do this in the grabber.  It will play havoc on the grabbing process.  (I need to have the titles exactly the same as given on the index website)

 

Let me explain:

 

Mostly there is an index page on the websites which publish EPG.  This index list per channel the schedule - time, title and sometimes some short explanation.  If you click on it a detail page (or pop-up window) appears giving the show details.  This is called the details page.

Now the title I can grab has to reside on the index page.  If the episode information is on the detail page, I cannot add it to the title field. 

 

Well I could but it will cause each day to have all the showdetails to be reloaded again from the web.  Multiplying the downloaded pages each by a factor 10.  And thus also the grab times.  These are now already 4 hours on 2 PC's each day.

 

Willy

Edited by doglover, 24 September 2015 - 14:36.

[Lost in Space]

It is quite simple to do this in the loader routines of the Plugin, the XMLTV Raw data should only contain what is really there from the provider.

 

I therefore added this 'Feature' to my OpenEPG Plugin for DreamOS Images with only a few lines of code. You just need to scan the detailed description for some specific strings and then extract the necessary season/episode info and add it to the title text before you load it to EPG database.

 

If you want I can post you these few lines so that you get a basic idea how easy it is to implement.

 

gutemine

[Rob van der Does]

Where can we find the source for this 'OpenEPG Plugin'?

[Lost in Space]

The Plugin has its support and kits thread at OoZoN's board and there you will find also a deb file with the full source code.

 

But if you have title and description in your XMLTV Importer Plugin you only need these few lines to extract the expisode and maybe season from description and add it to the title:

if config.plugins.openepg.episode.value:
                            episode=[]
                            episode=description.split()
                            length=len(episode)
                            if length > 2:
                                if episode[length-1].startswith("Ep"):
#                                    print "[OpenEPG] episode %s %s" % (episode[length-2],episode[length-1])
                                    if episode[length-2].startswith("S") or episode[length-2].startswith("(S"):
                                        # Season and Episode
                                        title="%s %s %s" % (title,episode[length-2],episode[length-1])
                                    else:
                                        # only Episode
                                        title="%s %s" % (title,episode[length-1])
#                                    print "[OpenEPG] title with episode %s" % (title)
                                if episode[1].startswith("Staffel") and episode[2].startswith("Folge"):
                                    # Season and Episode
                                    title="%s %s %s %s %s" % (episode[0],episode[1],episode[2],episode[3],title)

Edited by gutemine, 24 September 2015 - 23:58.

[Rob van der Does]

The Plugin has its support and kits thread at OoZoN's board and there you will find also a deb file with the full source code.

Thanks, found it. Is there a repos available?

[Rob van der Does]

The Plugin has its support and kits thread at OoZoN's board and there you will find also a deb file with the full source code.

Thanks, found it. Is there a repos available?

I ask, because not all the source files seem to be in the plugin (there are also compiled files without source).

It struck me that in the plugin there is no mentioning of Cross being used as basis for it. I think that should be the case and only mentioning it in a support thread doesn't make up for that.

Edited by Rob van der Does, 25 September 2015 - 05:30.

[Lost in Space]

These are the original unchanged binaries from CrossEPG and the about even says thank you for them. There is no repository and the Plugin is under GPL to be in line with their License.

[Rob van der Does]

.... and the about even says thank you for them. ...

OK, found that. So that's fine then.

[VirtuallyMore]

It is quite simple to do this in the loader routines of the Plugin, the XMLTV Raw data should only contain what is really there from the provider.

 

I therefore added this 'Feature' to my OpenEPG Plugin for DreamOS Images with only a few lines of code. You just need to scan the detailed description for some specific strings and then extract the necessary season/episode info and add it to the title text before you load it to EPG database.

 

If you want I can post you these few lines so that you get a basic idea how easy it is to implement.

 

gutemine

 

Sorry for the noob questions (I know nothing when it comes to scripting and coding) can you explain how I can get this on my GiGaBlue HD 800 Quad Plus box?

I don't care which epg grabber I use as long as it has the episode info in titles as you describe.

 

Should I get a different image on my box which can download this version of OpenEPG or how would I go about this? Images for the gigablue are limited but I could buy a new box if I have to, I'll do anything to get this feature back again it was really quite valuable to me.

Edited by VirtuallyMore, 25 September 2015 - 14:15.

[Lost in Space]

Well the Plugin is only for the epg database of dreamboxes running DreamOS but it could be easily enhanced to produce also epg.dat files (would be only a handfull lines of code and borrowing another crossepg binary). But I will not do it but it is OpenSource and under GPL so help youself.

But adding the code snippet that I posted to XMLTV Plugin would be also only a 10 Min Job...

Edited by gutemine, 25 September 2015 - 15:54.

[doglover]

There is howevewr a very simple method of renaming the recorded files with the information you want.  I have illustrated this in the attached thumbnails.

 

Open OpenWebif in your browser with the recordings. 

 

Select the information you want to appear in the title.  (see Rename1.jpg)

Press CRTL+C  (Copy)

 

Now click on the pencil beside the recording.

Paste in the information you just copied, by pressing CRTL+V (Paste).  See Rename2.jpg

 

Press OK.

Done.

 

I just did 10 recordings this way in under a minute.  And this included taking the screenshot in between.

You have to refresh the screen to see the results.  See Rename3.jpg

 

Willy

Attached Files

•  Rename1.jpg   291.29KB   5 downloads
•  Rename2.jpg   225.34KB   4 downloads
•  Rename3.jpg   332.85KB   4 downloads

Edited by doglover, 26 September 2015 - 17:27.

[Lost in Space]

Renaming is quite simple but some people collect series like stamps and have hundreds of them - so they still don't like this approach.

 

I was also quite resistive to add this functionality to OpenEPG Plugin, but at the end I simply gave up and added these few lines to do it automatically but I did it via a setting controling it, so the user can decide if he wants the original title or the pepped up one to be placed into the epg.db.

Edited by gutemine, 27 September 2015 - 11:27.

[doglover]

In fact it is very simple if you want to do this.

 

Merge the <title> and the <subttitle> tag into the title filed on the receiver and you are done. 

 

Willy

[VirtuallyMore]

In fact it is very simple if you want to do this.

 

Merge the <title> and the <subttitle> tag into the title filed on the receiver and you are done. 

 

Willy

 

Sorry to keep asking noob questions, but how exactly would I do this on my gigablue box?

 

 

Renaming is quite simple but some people collect series like stamps and have hundreds of them - so they still don't like this approach.

 

I was also quite resistive to add this functionality to OpenEPG Plugin, but at the end I simply gave up and added these few lines to do it automatically but I did it via a setting controling it, so the user can decide if he wants the original title or the pepped up one to be placed into the epg.db.

 

 

Is this a simple process for me to do if I install OpenEPG plugin to my gigablue box? Total noob here so not sure about how to write scripts.

Edited by VirtuallyMore, 4 October 2015 - 13:17.

[doglover]

In fact it is very simple if you want to do this.

    

    Merge the <title> and the <subttitle> tag into the title filed on the receiver and you are done.

    

    Willy

 

 

This you cannot do yourself.  (except if you know how to modify the python code)

This is for the coders an easy thing to do.

Is this a simple process for me to do if I install OpenEPG plugin to my gigablue box?

I do not know about this.

 

Willy

[Lost in Space]

OpenEPG Plugin runs only on latest Dreamboxes running DreamOS

[runica]

dm7020hd not work merci

[doglover]

Use OpenPLi 4.0 (for the dm7020hd a current image is still build)  and install XMLTVimport

.This works.

 

Willy