#42 EPG doesn't show non-active channels

[davepickles]

The EPG doesn't show channels which are not currently active. For example using the listing before 19:00 in the UK does not show BBC3 or BBC4.

[Walt]

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Ah! I use VDR 1.2 which has static channels.conf. There
would be a need to cache channel names but also deal with
old, no longer available (stale cached) channels. Maybe
cache over 24 hour period (or longer if channels appear once
a week for instance) and clear out channels that haven't
appeared in that time. Alternatively it may be possible to
extract the full epg for all channels from VDR but I
specifically do not want some channels in my epg / channel
selection as they just pad it out and we never watch them.

Walt

[davepickles]

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(Sorry this is now a feature request really, not a bug.)

The problem is more severe now that the on-screen EPG can
be used to set timers. For example, BBC4 in the UK doesn't
begin transmitting until 19:00, so I can't see the EPG to
set a timer on that channel until after that time.

I appreciate the problem of DVB-S users with hundreds of
channels. VDRAdmin gets round it by having its own config
file with the subset of channels which the user wants to
see, but the UI to set that up on a TV screen would be
horrible.

Dave