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TVE3-EPG: Grab EPG Only Card Mapping

on 12-03-2008

I just implemented a patch mcraenz has submitted to the sourceforge patches page. He has given a quite good description so i just quote him

"In New Zealand (I suspect other countries too) we have a DVB-S service that
has no CAM so we have to use analog+blaster+STB; which is fine, however
what we have found is that the EPG is not encrypted and since many of us
have a DVB-S card pointing at the same sat for our FTA stuff we scan in the
encrypted channels, combine them with the STB analog channels, set the
analog card with higher priority than the DVB-S card and enjoy reliable EPG
data from the sat while watching the channel via analog from the STB.

This works very well however it poses a problem with scheduling /
conflicts; since the channel must be mapped to both analog and DVB-S TVE3
naturally assumes that it can play the channel from DVB-S which is not the
case."

I did only a small addition to his patch.
You can also toggle the "EPG only" flag by double clicking on the right (card) column in the channel->card mapping.

Quote this article in website

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Posted by infinityloop, on 12-03-2008, , Registered

1. wiki

please descibe this behaviour in the TV.Server section of the wiki too.

sounds quite complex :S

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Posted by mcraenz, on 12-03-2008, , Registered

2. Wiki Updated

I've updated the Wiki with some more details.

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Posted by CYaBro, on 13-03-2008, , Registered

3. SVN

Has this been added to the latest SVN?

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Posted by CYaBro, on 14-03-2008, , Registered

4. EPG Only

OK so I have got SVN 17915 but where do I find the option 'EPG Only'???

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Posted by Milos, on 06-09-2008, , Guest

5. Guide empty

EPG will not grab any data except for the station name. The rest is No Data Available.

Part of the epg log is here:
2008-09-06 07:32:36.187500 [11]: Tuning finished but EpgGrabber no longer enabled
2008-09-06 07:32:36.187500 [11]: Epg: card:1 could not start atsc epg grabbing
2008-09-06 07:32:36.187500 [11]: unable to grab epg transponder: 0 ch: Smile of a Child started on -1
2008-09-06 07:32:36.187500 [11]: ATSC:tv:unknown Smile of a Child Freq:-1 ONID:0 TSID:3151 SID:7 PMT:70 FTA:False LCN:10000 phys:14 maj:20 min:5 SR:0 mod:Mod8Vsb

Thanks for help!

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