new user of radio times grabber

Remco Blok <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I am a new user of the radio times grabber. I am evaluating it with the 
intention to get xmltv data from radio times into Windows 7 media center using 
Big Screen Global epg (which I'll be evaluating as well and will ultimately 
have to purchase). I see people suggest corrections to the grabber on this 
list and that these are implemented by Nick Morrott. After googling for where 
I can find these new versions I ended up at 
http://supplement.xmltv.org/tv_grab_uk_rt/. Can somebody confirm that is the 
correct url to pick up new versions from? The url was not easy to find so 
perhaps the readme or wiki can be updated to mention this url. 

Anyway, here's a suggested correction from myself. My postcode is AB11 and I 
cannot see that in the list. If I select AB10 instead and all freeview 
channels then I get hd.london-macro.itv1.itv.co.uk in my config, which is not 
on freeview at my postcode (it is on freesat). Instead I expect to see STV HD 
at my postcode for freeview. Could that be corrected please?

I am confused though: when I look at the channel_ids file I see there is a 
hd.stv.tv and a hd.scotland-macro.stv.tv for radio times id 37 (called stv 
central in http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat) and I see a 
rt.hd.stv.tv for id 2219 (STV HD in channels.dat). Which is the correct one 
for my postcode? 

Also, at my postcode my standard def STV I suspect is radio times id 2203 (stv 
north in channels.dat, north.stv.tv in channel_ids). Why then is the 
timeshifted stv + 1 channel in the list tsod.plus-1.scotland-macro.stv.tv 
which is based on id 37, stv central, and not based on id 2203, stv north? I 
also see id 2681 (itv1 stv +1) in channels.dat. What is that then? 

many thanks

Remco


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