Re: Automatically notifying about SD-JSON lineup changes

On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 09:21 +0100, John Veness wrote:
> On 07/07/2016 01:06, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> > Yes, you can mark channels as "not visible"/"invisible"
> > (I forget the term on the page).  That is often the easiest
> > solution (as with much else, your particular use cases
> > will vary).  It is what I do for (about) 300 channels that
> > I do not subscribe to in my lineup.  MythTV will fill
> > in the guide data (it is just a little more database space),
> > and then it will not (by default) use them to display
> > the guide or schedule recording.  And it moves all
> > the control to one place (MythTV) rather than trying
> > to coordinate it two places.  Rather than "deleting"
> > channels you are not interested in, or you cannot
> > really receive, one can mark them as "invisible".
> I don't do this at the moment, as I just replied to Kevin. I suppose
> I 
> could, but it feels conceptually "wrong" for so many channels to
> appear 
> in the GBR-0001207-DEFAULT lineup which shouldn't be there, and
> feels 
> wrong to use MythTV to fix this when the problem should be fixed at 
> source, in my opinion.
> 
> Incidentally, GBR-0001207-DEFAULT seems to have a description of "London 
> > DVB-T | Freeview - Central (South)", which sounds OK as I definitely 
> want DVB-T Freeview and Central (South) sounds about right, although the 
> London is a bit odd as I'm nowhere near London. But it definitely says 
> Freeview and Sky 1 etc. are not on Freeview. I realise this is a 
> Schedules Direct issue and not XMLTV.

I reported this to SD after I switched and the answer from their
upstream was (paraphrasing) that Sky 1 etc are a component of the UK's
Digital Terrestrial TV platform which includes more that just the
obvious "Free" OTA channels but also contains pay IPTV channels
available from the likes of VuTV, BT or TalkTalk if you have
appropriate STB. All channels from 300-599 fit into that category.

Ian.

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