Emulator vs Loadguide

[zollymonsta]

Something to add.. There are slight changes in the lineup between Saturn and Sky. Is there any chance of a seperate headend slice on the emulator for Saturn? Namely, PPV movie channels - there are more channels and in a different channel number range.. and a couple of other channels.

[ehintz]

Well, it's on the todo list. But not a terribly high priority; AFAIK there's no guide data for any of the PPV channels, and I assume the PPV stuff requires attention from the Saturn remote anyway (usually one has to punch in passcodes and agree to charges before watching PPV), so I don't see much value in having the tivo know it's there. Feel free to correct me on this; I only have Sky and in fact have never even seen Saturn. But I do figure I'll get around to it one of these days, just in the interest of propriety. Not for several weeks at the earliest though.

For that matter, if somebody on Saturn can confirm if the add-all-saturn-channels script on Tim's FAQ is still correct that would be helpful. I was looking at it earlier today and got the impression that it's out of date.

Oh-you can always use the manual add-channel thing to customize your tivo if you really want those PPV channels. The channels would go away after a new headend slice came down but that's not a particularly common occurrence. And you could always add 'em right back with no real fuss.

[Dalc]

Does the emulator get the listings before loadguide? Just that I notice it takes a few days from when jaidev posts theres a new slice up, to when my loadguide actually sees this and dls it.

If the emulator is getting the listings first then I'll swap to that. Or is it just a manual step that comes down to when someone gets around to copying the file to the right place?

[ehintz]

It's a cron job running daily at about 6pm localtime... but I'm sourcing from the same spot as loadguide so it's just a matter of which one runs first (loadguide vs my cron job).