[ANNOUNCE] Extended EPG Plugin 0.0.2

sorry, hepi, hatte deine pn aus dem anderen Forum nicht gelesen, war wohl Gedankenübertragung
brgds
andi

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Original von hepi
I will work on an updated eepg plugin package for yavdr within the next days. The package will be available within the yavdr stable-vdr PPA once it has been tested.

Anyone has a newer version that supports sky italia EPG?

Thanks.

Does any patch in this thread (or combination of patches) fix the 64bit compile problem that has been reported in a few places?

eepg.c:2688:35: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
eepg.c:2777:16: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before ‘(’ token
eepg.c:4229:31: error: expected ‘}’ at end of input

I saw that there is a 64bit binary in the yavdr launchpad, so it has to work somehow (I already tried the source version from there but get the same compile error)

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Originally posted by hepi
I will work on an updated eepg plugin package for yavdr within the next days. The package will be available within the yavdr stable-vdr PPA once it has been tested.

Hi,

stumbled upon this thread and noticed that hepi's message is rather old. I remembered I found the patch needed to compile on 64bit on the VDR mailing list, and I also have a patch for proper header inclusion (not everyone compiles vdr plugins in the vdr source tree, that's an ill concept, and get rid of ugly including a C file, that one was possible after I asked KLS exporting necessary functions in the header around version 1.7.13). With these patches, I'm successfully fetching the epg for BBC channels.

Enjoy,
Lucian

Is there any work being done on this plugin?

I have it installed with VDR 1.17.16 and it doesn't seem to get the 2-10 days EPG for Sky UK. I can only get Now and Next.

Any ideas how to sort this?

The plugin works. I use it on a daily basis (but only for freesat channels). But it is not ideal that

a) the author is inactive and the licence/copyright question is not solved
b) the source code is not hosted on a SVN/Git/etc.
c) the existing patches for the plugins source code are not hosted on a SVN/Git/etc.

If we could get the author to put the souce code under GPL, then we would know that we could do a fork and continue to clean the plugin up.

Our efforts to optimize the plugin in the last months are quite chaotic and this keeps my motivation low to help out.

Cheers,
hepi

Thanks for the reply Hepi,

As you say, the Freesat channels work great but the Sky UK channels are unfortunately only Now and Next.

It really would be a wonderful plugin if it worked for all channels but I can understand your issues if the source code is hard to get hold of.

Actually, I just remembered this: If I remember it correctly, you have to manually tune to

EPG Background Audio.;BSkyB:11778:VC23M2O0S0:S28.2E:27500:0:648=eng@4:0:0:4152:2:2004:0

Afterwards, you get a decent epg for SKY UK via eepg plugin.

Cheers,
hepi

P.S.: I have contacted dingo, the author of the plugin and he told me that he will look into putting the eepg code under a suitable licence when he finds the time for it.

Amazing! That worked perfectly.

My EPG has now filled up for 7 days, that is absolutely fantastic, thank you so much!

Dingo,

That is really great news! Please have a look at http://projects.vdr-developer.org/

Cheers,
hepi

I'm really glad I brought this up now, I got my problem sorted and hopefully the eepg plugin will improve even more in the hands of the community!

Hi,

Just wanted to say thank you very much (again) for keeping this plugin in shape.
I really appreciate all effort being done.

Greetings,
Steven

Hi dingo,

Thank you very much for the new version! I have another question regarding eepg which is independet from the SVN/Git topic:

When I try to build the plugin on Debian/Ubuntu as a package (vdr-plugin-eepg) independently from VDR sources using the dpkg-buildpackage command, I didn't find any other way as copying the complete libsi folder of the latest VDR version into the plugin's folder and changing the following include line:

#include "../../../libsi/si.c"

This very ugly approach was already discussed earlier in this thread. The attached patch against eepg-0.0.5 should give you an example how I do this.

I'm not an expert on VDR plugins and plugin architecture, so if there is any other alternative to this I would be thankful to learn about it.

EDIT: Maybe it would be necessary to split the eepg sourcecode into two parts: A VDR core patch + the plugin code?

Cheers,
hepi

Zitat von dimsa

Here is the patch that tries to fix the following:

- Fix for vdr-1.7.x
- Fix for OTV formats
- Fix MHW2 format
- Fix crash when Themes are less than the size needed for the MHW2. This has also to be completely modified since the current implementation is not best.
- Added parental rating for SKY since it is provided and handled by vdr-1.7.15

This patch is very useful for Sky IT too. It doesn't fit well with the last eepg 0.0.5 version. Could you think to adapt such patch to the new release? It seems that the development of eepg is going to start again (new git repository) and your patch could be integrated.

Hi all,

In my local version of eepg, after the patch that I have provided on this board, I have already removed the

#include "../../../libsi/si.c"

completely and I use the si.h and it works fine, I will try to extract a patch tomorrow, and I will also try to make it against vdr-plugin-eepg-0.0.5

I have updated to the version "0.0.5-1yavdr1~lucid" that is available on the Maverick repo by Alexandr Surkov (here ) and the EPG Background Audio channel method of building the EPG doesn't seem to be working anymore.

Is there anything I can check in the logs? (/var/logs/syslog) to check if it is fetching the EPG correctly?

Reverted to "vdr-plugin-eepg_0.0.3-36yavdr1~natty_i386.deb" and the EPG is filling up again.