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SYNOPSIStv_grab_eu_epgdata--helptv_grab_eu_epgdata tv_grab_eu_epgdata
--version
tv_grab_eu_epgdata--capabilities
tv_grab_eu_epgdata--description
tv_grab_eu_epgdata [--config-file FILE]
[--days N] [--offset N]
[--output FILE] [--quiet] [--debug]
tv_grab_eu_epgdata--configure [--config-file FILE]
tv_grab_eu_epgdata--configure-api [--stage NAME]
[--config-file FILE]
[--output FILE]
tv_grab_eu_epgdata--list-channels [--config-file FILE]
[--output FILE] [--quiet] [--debug]
tv_grab_eu_epgdata--preferredmethod
DESCRIPTION
Output TV and listings in XMLTV format for many stations available in
Europe.
First you must run tv_grab_eu_epgdata--configure to choose which
stations you want to receive.
Then running tv_grab_eu_epgdata with no arguments will get a listings
for the stations you chose for five days including today.
This is a commercial grabber. Go to
http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/EU_epgdata to sign up or send an e-mail
to service@epgdata.com for further information. It's also possible to
ask for a test account.
OPTIONS--configure Prompt for which stations to download and write the
configuration file.
--config-file FILE Set the name of the configuration file, the default
is ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_eu_epgdata.conf. This is the file written by
--configure and read when grabbing.
--gui OPTION Use this option to enable a graphical interface to be
used. OPTION may be 'Tk', or left blank for the best available choice.
Additional allowed values of OPTION are 'Term' for normal terminal
output (default) and 'TermNoProgressBar' to disable the use of
Term::ProgressBar.
--output FILE When grabbing, write output to FILE rather than standard
output.
--days N When grabbing, grab N days rather than 5.
--offset N Start grabbing at today + N days.
--quiet Do not show status messages.
--debug Provide more information on progress to stderr to help in
debugging.
--list-channels Output a list of all channels that data is available
for. The list is in xmltv-format.
--version Show the version of the grabber.
--help Print a help message and exit.
--preferredmethod Shows the preferred method for downloading data
(see
http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XmltvCapabilities) =head1 ENVIRONMENT
VARIABLES
The environment variable HOME can be set to change where configuration
files are stored. All configuration is stored in $HOME/.xmltv/. On
Windows, it might be necessary to set HOME to a path without spaces in
it.
SUPPORTED CHANNELS
For a list of supported channels, see the channel_ids file distributed
with this grabber. If additional channels are available, you will
receive a warning when you run --configure.
Once I am aware that new channels are available, the channel_ids file
will be updated and this grabber will automatically fetch an updated
copy.
COMPATIBILITY
The channel ids used in this grabber aim to be mostly possible with
other grabbers, eg tv_grab_de_prisma and some other grabbers for other
countries. NOTE: Retaining compatibility was not always possible or
practicable. You can get a list of channel ids using --list-channels
AUTHOR
Michael Haas, laga -at- laga -dot- ath -dot - cx. This documentation is
copied from tv_grab_se_swedb by Mattias Holmlund, which in turn was
copied from tv_grab_uk by Ed Avis. Parts of the code are copied from
tv_grab_se_swedb and tv_grab_na_dd (in XMLTV 0.5.45) as well as various
other sources.
BUGS
There's no proper support for channels with locally different
schedules. For example, if your EPG package is a German one, you'll get
the EPG schedule for Germany even if you preferred the Swiss schedule
which is also available in the data (for some channels at least).
Timezones are not handled correctly. Currently, you have to enter your
time zone manually during the configure step. You have to do this every
time your time zone changes, eg for daylight saving time ("Sommerzeit"
and "Normalzeit" for my fellow Germans). I'll try to have this fixed
for the next XMLTV release. Please see this thread for further
discussion and some additional issues:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.devel/7919 FYI: you can
modify the time zone directly in the config file which is usually
located at ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_eu_epgdata.conf or ~/.mythtv/FOO.xmltv
where FOO is the name of your video source in MythTV.
If the data source gives us data for one day, they'll also cover a part
of the following day. Maybe this should be fixed. Please note: data is
not overlapping! So if we want to get data for today, we might as well
grab yesterday because that'll give us EPG till ~5am for today.
I'm sure this list is not complete. Let me know if you encounter
additional problems.
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