[Xmltv-devel] tv_grab_uk_atlas - Some questions

[Dreamcat4 <dre...@gm...>]

Hello!

1st question:

in _uk_atlas grabber, it has multiple platforms:

tv_grab_uk_atlas selects channels to download based on your viewing
platform.
Choose your viewing platform:
0: Sky HD (GB)(IE)
1: Sky SD (GB)(IE)
2: Freeview (GB)
3: Freesat (GB)
4: Virgin (GB)
5: Top Up TV (GB)
6: YouView (GB)
7: Saorsat (IE)
8: BT TV (GB)
9: TalkTalk YouView (GB)
Select one: [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (default=0)] 3


However I want to grab for 2 platforms. Bother Freeview + FreeSat. However
they both have many channels in common. It is not effecient to just
download all or the duplicate channels twice (using the grabber combiner).
We are supposed to keep the load on atlas servers conservative and the
minimum possible.

So I would like to select multiple platforms, and have the _uk_atlas
grabber create one config file, containing 1 entry for each channel,
including the unique channels on both platforms. I kindly ask to consider
this issue as many of us have multiple tuner sources, both DVB-T and DVB-S.


It is possible (awkward) to merge these files manually with unix commands.
However it is very hard from the file format to be sure if you got it
right. And manually merging the files together leaves these fields (not
mergable):

platform=cbhv
region=cbhz

platform=cbg2
region=cbhs


Does it matter which one I use? (i.e. to the functioning of the software).
Only one of the 2 choices seems to be settable in the config file.


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2nd question I have:

_uk_atlas is listing 'lineups' in it's list of capabilities. I understand
that lineups is still in proposal stage and not finished yet. However since
_uk_atlas is now advertising that it supports lineups, then which one of
those 3 lineup proposals does it implement? Or is it broken? There is no
option to enable lineup feature in the `--configure` user questions. So
does that mean it is always 'on' ?


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3rd question:

Can I set variables in the xmltv config file to specify deafault options
for the command line switches like '--days 1' and '--offset 3' and so on? I
have not seen anywhere that it is documented. But is it possible? Since
tvheadend does not let us specify switches, it would be good to set a
default which is not the full 14 days look ahead everytime it gets run by
tvheadend.




Kind Regards
Dreamcat4