Re: UK Atlas load/usage warning email

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 11:57:52AM +0100, Neil Bird wrote:
> On 10/05/16 10:48, Karl Dietz wrote:
> > Schedules Direct is offering guide data for UK (and many more
> > countries) to their paying members.
> > This was announced just last friday, see
> > http://www.schedulesdirect.org/
> > http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2791
> 
>    Well, that's serendipitous.  I shall have to look into that, maybe 
> even stumping up for the month's “test” subscription (a week may be too 
> short to play).
> 
>    My suspicion is that the channel IDs will be different, though, so I 
> reckon at a minimum I'll have to go through all my channels fixing their 
> xmltvid values.  Can anyone confirm?  Indeed, has anyone checked out the 
> quality of their UK listings?
> 
> 

Ive paid the $25 for a year - just reactivated my previous US subscription
- for the US this is incredible value for money - you get good data
for 1000+ channels - and you can feel good about supporting them.

I have had a little look at the data - so for non-US you can only get data
via the JSON service and not the original so-called DataDirect format (as I
used in the USA).

If you are using MythTV I cant find any integration of the JSON service
in their code (I have the mythtv git source cloned).
Ive been using a tv_grab_sd_json script I found which downloads the JSON data
as XMLTV type data.

This is a channel as converted to XML form

  <channel id="I17153.json.schedulesdirect.org">
    <display-name>BBC1 British Brdcstg Corp.</display-name>
    <display-name>BBC1</display-name>
    <display-name>101</display-name>
    <icon src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/schedulesdirect/assets/stationLogos/s17153_h3_aa.png" />
  </channel>

so does look like your channel IDs are different.

And a sample program:

  <programme start="20160512180000 +0000" stop="20160512183000 +0000" channel="I65165.json.schedulesdirect.org">
    <title>ITV News Granada Reports</title>
    <desc>All the latest news, sport and breaking stories from around the North West.</desc>
    <category>News</category>
    <category>Series</category>
    <category>tvshow</category>
    <episode-num system="dd_progid">SH012895260000</episode-num>
    <audio>
      <stereo>stereo</stereo>
    </audio>
    <previously-shown start="20011008000000 +0100" />
    <subtitles type="teletext" />
  </programme>

Note the use of Data Direct style program ids - this will probably mess with any existing program ID.

Also BIG note - I only see satellite data available ie Sky and Freesat - dont see any Freeview
- so you would have to mess with some channels if you want Freeview - eg Dave is not on Freesat (but
is on Sky).

David

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