RT XMLTV data - Missing data

KJP45

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Jan 4, 2012, 6:03:53 PM1/4/12

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The following channels don't seem to have data produced anymore, and
haven't for the last few weeks:-

Christmas 24

Discovery Knowledge

Sony Entertainment Television

KJP45

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Jan 14, 2012, 9:35:16 PM1/14/12

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Channels are still not returning data this week.

Is anyone investigating?

Tom McAdam

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Jan 15, 2012, 3:09:21 AM1/15/12

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Hi Kevin,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you on this.

Christmas 24: We already have this schedule in Atlas but as Movies 24. As this channel is known as Movies 24 for most of the year, I suggest we rename channel 2197 to Movies 24 in channels.dat. Does that sound ok to you?

We're not receiving schedules for either Sony Entertainment Television or Discovery Knowledge from our upstream provider at the moment; we'll ask them if they can be enabled in our feed.

Thanks,

Tom

KJP45

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Jan 15, 2012, 10:28:44 PM1/15/12

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Thanks Tom,

The channels.dat file should reflect the actual name of course, but
shouldn't this change when the channel name changes. (For instance
'Christmas' has changed back to Showcase - 2622 ) or are these done
manually?

I'm not sure when data for Discovery Knowledge stopped (I think it was
a while ago) but I know data for Sony Entertainment Television stopped
around the time you took over the RT service.

I take it there isn't aren't any checks in place to see if any of the
channel .dat files are empty or not. Is this something that could be
introduced by you or the data provider?

Also, can you confirm what time the new files are made available each
day?

Many thanks.

Kevin.

Nick Morrott

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Jan 18, 2012, 4:58:38 AM1/18/12

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Tom,

I've been checking for empty files on the XMLTV service for the last
few years to keep the uk_rt grabber's channel config as up to date as
possible. I've just rechecked for empty listings and have the
following findings:

Empty files (still present) and already flagged/reported to RT in the past:

Empty files currently "live" in the uk_rt grabber config:

As you can see, there are are a *lot* of empty listings generated
daily (the first channels list) that have not been of any use for
months/years (flagged as Do Not Use in the uk_rt channel_ids file).
Should/could these be removed/deactivated from your system?

The second channel list shows channels that have provided listings in
the past, but did not this morning. You mentioned earlier in the
thread your awareness of the SET and DK channels, do you have any
information regarding the others?

Note that the channel names above are those that appear in the uk_rt
grabber config and may not agree 100% with those in the channels.dat
file on the XMLTV service (the IDs will match, however).

Cheers,
Nick
tv_grab_uk_rt dev

mike

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Jan 19, 2012, 2:32:48 AM1/19/12

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On Jan 16, 3:28 am, KJP45 <kevin.pen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Tom,
>
> The channels.dat file should reflect the actual name of course, but
> shouldn't this change when the channel name changes. (For instance
> 'Christmas' has changed back to Showcase - 2622 ) or are these done
> manually?

Woah! Hang on there a minute. During December, Movies24 renamed itself
Christmas24 in the Sky EPG and onscreen, but we carried on getting the
listings on Movies24 very happily here and there was nothing to do.
Now, Movies24 is empty and Christmas24 was empty anyway. What's this
about a channel called "Showcase"?

KJP45

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Jan 22, 2012, 9:10:10 PM1/22/12

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Showcase (SKY 303) gets renamed to 'Christmas' around Christmas time
and then back again afterwards, In the same way Movies 24 becomes
Christmas 24 temporarily.

lbt

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Feb 19, 2012, 2:18:57 PM2/19/12

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> The second channel list shows channels that have provided listings in
> the past, but did not this morning. You mentioned earlier in the
> thread your awareness of the SET and DK channels, do you have any
> information regarding the others?

Any progress on these empty listings?

mike

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Feb 20, 2012, 1:39:56 PM2/20/12

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Well as I said, Movies24 may have been branded 'Christmas 24' onscreen
as such in a pointless marketing exercise, but the listings continued
to be supplied in Movies 24 as normal.

Then after Christmas they were gone.

It's obviously more trouble than it's worth to try and pander to, and
keep up with, these stupid marketing campaigns. The result is that
we've been without Movies 24 listings for almost 2 months now!

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