Partial bodged guide data available

**ehintz** · 10-05-2004, 10:51 PM

Only the channels that the family really uses (and which I could get good guide data for); the process is extremely labour intensive and I don't have any time to make it better right now. But it's better than nothing I suppose.

http://www.hintz.org/media/slices.tgz

These are also up for the emulator, but I'm not sure if it will work; it only loaded Discovery for me and I don't have time to troubleshoot-gotta get out of bed in 5 hours and I'm not even in it yet. I did the others manually, they all load (and all checked out with slicedump) but some data isn't showing yet, dunno if it will or not. But some data is, and it makes a nice break from "to be announced". Going to sleep now. Goodnight Gracie.

**hh75** · 11-05-2004, 05:26 AM

Hi,

Nice work on those slices - any chance you'll make a TV1,2,& 3 slice while we wait for jaidev & tim?

**ehintz** · 11-05-2004, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by hh75

Hi,

Nice work on those slices - any chance you'll make a TV1,2,& 3 slice while we wait for jaidev & tim?

Maybe tonight... The problem is getting sufficient data for them. Yesterday I was only able to get about 2 days of data (and that data didn't want to make decent slices). I may try again later tonight once I get home, or try a different data source. It all depends on how beat I am (I'm sort of dragging today after staying up so late...). Figures this would happen on the first week in several months that I've had significant time restraints.

**timmy** · 11-05-2004, 09:54 AM

i'll scrape saturn tonight so we can do a full slice (no descriptions from saturn tho) if u want to convert to a slice as i don't know how to do that.

**ehintz** · 11-05-2004, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by timmy

i'll scrape saturn tonight so we can do a full slice (no descriptions from saturn tho) if u want to convert to a slice as i don't know how to do that.

I could give it a go I suppose... I've been using the TivoCan parsexmlguide.pl script though, and I think Jaidev's using Warren's WKTivoGuide. But, if you can get me the same data you're giving Jaidev I can grab WKTG and give it a go. If I don't fall asleep first.

**timmy** · 11-05-2004, 06:11 PM

mate... making a partial manual slice. full credit to ya. phew, i tried that b4

ok here ya go...

a 7 day saturn grab. Better than nothing.
Hope you can figure out wtwriteguide

ps the only prob with sky is their site is really really slow.
I have tried implementing a couple of workarounds but they're not
really working out too well. dunno... i'm not the only one having
trouble with their site thats for sure.

link is here as this site has a 39k max file size upload restriction.

data.zip

**zollymonsta** · 11-05-2004, 08:06 PM

No.. how do we use wtwriteguide?

**ehintz** · 11-05-2004, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by zollymonsta

No.. how do we use wtwriteguide?

Working on it... ;-)

**zollymonsta** · 11-05-2004, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by ehintz

Working on it... ;-)

Good on ya mate ;-)

I still get a bit confused when you talk about working on an emulator. Are you working on a NZ version of the TiVo iso?

I'm still having lots of issues here too with my TiVo not responding to the remote sometimes, would be interesting to hear if any of you other NZ TiVo lads are too.

**ehintz** · 11-05-2004, 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by zollymonsta

Good on ya mate ;-)

I still get a bit confused when you talk about working on an emulator. Are you working on a NZ version of the TiVo iso?

I'm still having lots of issues here too with my TiVo not responding to the remote sometimes, would be interesting to hear if any of you other NZ TiVo lads are too.

Gahh. I'm not getting decent slices from the output. And I can't have another 2-3am night, so the partials will have to do for now. Dunno if I'll be able to do much on it tomorrow night either, I do volunteer fire training and generally don't get home until pretty late(and considering our training officer's wife is unhappy about lack of guide data he may run me harder tomorrow night-crap runs downhill

). If I can get a build environment going on my laptop perhaps I can hack on the train, but that's about the only free time tomorrow.

Emulator-you know about that, it's the TiVo service emulator I setup last month... I know a few folks are using it anyway... Point being, those who use it for guidedata aren't using loadguide.

I've seen the delayed response as well. Didn't see it with my DirecTiVo, but I've never used the standalone in a supported environment so I dunno if that's normal(it isn't for a DTivo). I wouldn't be surprised though with that itty bitty risc processor in there. Not much horsepower in these things.