ABC program start times displaying incorrectly

[IanP]

Many thanks for your reply David. I confirm that the guide data start time problem occurs on all ABC channels - no other channels are affected. To clarify, the guide data reports start times 30 mins earlier than the actual start time.

I am based near Coffs Harbour, and originally had the Tivo set to post code 2454. After the problem described above became manifest, I changed to post code 2000 to see if this helped, but it didn't.

I ran the command line you suggested and received the following response. I hope it assists in gaining an understanding of what is going on. I very much appreciate your help with this issue.

S3-tivo/hack $ /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl | grep -A 1 ABC

01/01:08:54:42: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: Channel:2, Name:ABC, TransportID:547
01/01:08:54:42: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: /StationTms/10002334:1d35 /Server/120868372
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01/01:08:54:42: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: Channel:20, Name:{ABC HD}, TransportID:547
01/01:08:54:42: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: /StationTms/10007167:36fcf6 /Server/364503524
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: Channel:21, Name:ABC, TransportID:547
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: NO STATION
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: Channel:22, Name:ABC2/KIDS, TransportID:547
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: /StationTms/10002336:1d36 /Server/120868376
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: Channel:23, Name:{ABC ME}, TransportID:547
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: /StationTms/10004827:53ec1 /Server/156323034
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: Channel:24, Name:{ABC NEWS}, TransportID:547
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: /StationTms/10002335:1d34 /Server/120868370
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01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: Channel:201, Name:{ABC Jazz}, TransportID:547
01/01:08:54:43: /hack/bin/station_debug.tcl: /StationTms/10005676:8cc7e /Server/162871115

[DavidKeegel]

I'm starting to see what's going on here.
Those numbers you quoted (eg 120868372) all correspond to Broken Hill ABC. And so therefore the guide data you see on your TiVo shows you what is on in Broken Hill.
The way guide data for Broken Hill is gathered changed in the last week (effective from Dec 28 guide data) which I think made it more accurate for Broken Hill. But it looks like when we did that we should have changed the time zone used for Broken Hill guide data to Broken Hill time (which is effectively the same as SA time) instead of Sydney time. I think I should fix this anyway because (if I now understand correctly) the times in Broken Hill have been out by half an hour since Dec 28. And fixing that should mostly fix your issue, except to the extent (if any) that Coffs Harbour ABC has different actual content to Broken Hill ABC (apart from the wall clock time difference).

The other issue is why is there a mismatch between your tivo saying it gets 120868372 and oztivo mothership saying that 120868372 is for Broken Hill. I'm inclined to think that you (IanP) are right that it is in Coffs Harbour and oztivo is wrong. If you could paste the results from

/hack/bin/station_debug.tcl

that would help me see if the non-ABC channels match what oztivo expects for Coffs Harbour. It would also be really good if we could find someone with a tivo around Broken Hill and get station_debug.tcl output from them (because as things stand now, it looks like we don't know what numbers to use for Broken Hill ABC channels).

[DavidKeegel]

I have shifted Broken Hill ABC channel showings since Dec 28 by 30 minutes, and changed the time zone for Broken Hill ABC channels to Australia/Broken_Hill so that future guide data when imported into oztivo will be treated as Broken_Hill (Adelaide) time rather than Sydney (which should stop this happening again in future). There might be some rough edges for the half hour before/after midnight. That change won't be visible on TiVos until they connect to tivo service after about 2am AEDT (Jan 2).

Still To Do: should non-ABC channels in Broken Hill be moved too? And fix confusion in ABC tivoids between Coffs Harbour and Broken Hill.