[vdr] Re: /video/epg.data: illegal channel ID problem

[Robert Sturrock <rns@unimelb.edu.au>]

Hello Malcolm et. al.,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 01:43:05PM +0930, Malcolm Caldwell wrote:
> How are you populating the epg.data?  Just putting things in the file? 
> It is better to use svdrp.  There is an example in the vdr distribution.
> (src/PLUGINS/sky/getsky.pl.  I use a similar script for my epg grabs.

I have actually begun using your script as the basis for my own -
thanks for your efforts on this! :-)

I have tried a combination of populating epg.data by hand (shutdown
vdr, populate epg.data, restart vdr), as well as entering a single
entry using svdrp, such as:

    root@tivo# telnet localhost 2001
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 tivo SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 1.2.2; Mon Aug 25 16:06:18 2003
    pute
    354 Enter EPG data, end with "." on a line by itself
    C T-0-191-0 NINE
    E Id 1061859600 3600 0
    T National Nine Morning News
    D Local and International news presented by Kim Watkins.
    e
    c
    .
    451 Error while processing EPG data
    quit
    221 tivo closing connection

.. logfile reads:

    Aug 25 16:06:18 tivo vdr[823]: connect from 127.0.0.1, port 32777 - accepted
    Aug 25 16:06:22 tivo vdr[823]: ERROR: illegal channel ID: T-0-191-0

> getsky.pl (and my scripts) use the svdrp command lstc to get a list of
> channels and ids that you can then be sure are correct.

lstc gives me this:

    root@tivo# telnet localhost 2001
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 tivo SVDRP VideoDiskRecorder 1.2.2; Mon Aug 25 16:08:21 2003
    lstc
    250-1 ABC:226500:I0B7G16:T:27500:512:650:0:0:0:0:0:0
    250-2 SBS:536625:I0B7G8:T:27500:161:81:0:0:0:0:0:0
    250-3 SEVEN:177500:I0B7G8:T:27500:769:770:0:0:0:0:0:0
    250-4 NINE:191625:I0B7G8:T:27500:513:660:0:0:0:0:0:0
    250 5 TEN:219500:I0B7G16:T:27500:512:650:0:0:0:0:0:0
    quit
    221 tivo closing connection


Perhaps my channels.conf is not complete (although it seems to work
ok).  Is there a way of deriving channel IDs from the above?

Thanks.

Robert.


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