Slyk EPG 7 day downloader

Slyk EPG 7 Day - V2.08

Last updated 04/02/2024

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Warning this may not work on older boxes due to the amount of processing it is doing.

Plugin to download official Sky UK EPG via your enigma2 box using epg importer.

Can also populate UK Cable/Virgin EPG.

How to use.

The program uses Sat 28.2e lamedb file to get the service refs for the downloaded EPG data.

I highly recommend you do a satellite scan to get an up to date lamedb file first.

UK Sat -->

openatv - menu/setup/service searching/manual scan/type of scan - single satellite 28.2e

or

Auto Bouquets - select your region in HD and do a scan.

or

* edit 07/06/2019 - you can now also use the latest version of e-channelizer see this post
Slyk EPG 7 day downloader

Download and install the IPK

Reboot gui.

Run the slykepg7day plugin which can be found in the plugins menu or in the same menu you find epgimporter (varies per box)

Set the auto update time to be about 10 mins before your epgimporter automatic update. Use a random time and not 7am or 8am etc.

Select the number of days you want. 1 to 7.

Press green to save your settings.

Press Yellow to start download.

Go into epgimporter plugin. Unselect all Rytec UK sources. Select SlykEPG7day.

Save. Run manual scan. Should get about 100000-170000 events.

Check your EPG either via epg guide or channel select or any of the other EPGs we now have.

There is a Cable/Virgin replacement file in /etc/enigma2/SlykEpg7day/virgin-replacements.txt

You can edit the virgin values in there (left), to match Sky Values (right)

Tell me the good, the bad, the ugly.

If its taking longer than 5 mins and your box seems unresponsive. The plugin has probably crashed.

On a fast box it should take about 1m 30s to 2mins. Depending on the speed of your internet. I have not tested it on a slow box.

You will need to turn your box off and on to get out of it.

SlykEpg7day V1.08 now on post 1.

Better rules for picking up nearly all Virgin channels.

Ignorelist been added as an editable file in /etc/enigma2/SlykEpg7day/ignore-list.txt

virgin-replacments.txt can be amended in /etc/enigma2/SlykEpg7day/virgin-replacements.txt (use the actual name not the short picon name)

If editting any of the above 2 files please make sure it is valid by checking it in jsonlint.com

Also do not delete these 2 files. Clear the contents if you must, but don't delete the files.

On running the program I have moved the save settings function to the end of the process to help eliminate a crash

I have disabled the coloured buttons on start, as you could press them twice and the program would do weird things.

For those with the backports or lzma python module, the program schedules will now be compressed in xz format. Saving you about 30mb in space.

And for those who wish to see what channels are in their lamedb files. (excluding the channels I am ignoring). There is also a new folder now called output in.
/etc/enigma2/SlykEpg7Day.

These csv files can be opened in Microsoft excel for easy reading.

And sorry I wont be doing the saorview channels. I think that would clash with my virgin code.

Enjoy.

For anyone who reads their debug files, some tiny bit of data corrupts nearly every run.

I do not know if this is bad data from their end, or bad code my end.

Either way I catch it and ignore it. So don't worry about that problem.

It doesn't seem to affect anything.

I just noticed that SayyiD has updated e-channelizer with my request to change the king of sat lamedb file to the short proper sky names. Good man. :thumbup:

V 19.1.0.601

To dowload latest sky28.2e lamedb file for people that don't have their own.

Open latest e-channelizer.

Click Home, download, kingofsat, next

Select Astra 2E/2G/2F.

Select Finished

Select Save as. Select a folder on your PC.

Copy lamedb file over to etc/enigma2/slykepg7day

Quote from dsayers

Can you add more schedule options ie. daily or weekly?

I will have to see how epgimporter are doing this.

I am not anticipating that is very easy to do.

Right lets clear this thread again and try again.

Thanks for your feedbacks.

SlykEpg7day V1.09
New file on post 1.

Fixed a bug in the last release that stopped the epg data being updated.

Fixed auto update crashing

Quote from Ev0

How can we get epg for the correct itv and bbc region ?

This is coming in the next version. BBC should already be correct anyway.

Over the last couple of days I have been plumbing in.

Option to compress programme data or not as a choice.
Option to pick your main sky region locality.

Picking up all regional ITVs and STVs individual data, rather than as a collective.

Banging my head a against a wall trying to work out why every run there was a batch of bad data. (which might potentially be the reason for freezes, but further testing required)

Eventually found out why very late last night :celebrate::firewor1k:
Some international channels, namely Channel "islam channel urdu" and "iON" only have 1 entry in the programme schedule.

Which basically says no information available.

Now all the other schedules have a list of programmes in a Json list.

These 2 in particular as they only have 1 entry are not in a json list, but in a json dictionary.
With python you loop through a dictionary differently than you would a list. Hence an error being thrown.

And it was bloody difficult to spot as a list is [ ] where as a dictionary is { }

Therefore the solution is I just need to see if the epg data is a single dictionary, if so wrap it in a list. Bleeding simple in the end. (2 days laters)

dsayers I haven't looked into picking the days of the week for the downloads yet.

Just trying to get this running smoothly first.

That will possibly come later.

ABM is doing a sat scan which is a lot more compicated than what I am doing.

for example I download ITV granada data with ref 6130. This is the same ID used in ABM.

But there is no cross reference to this in the lamedb file at all. If there was my job is easy.

I think I might of sorted it any way. Just doing some testing now.

@s3n0 everything you mention above is what I am trying to overcome with this plugin.

We are trying to get everything done on your enigma2 box without the need for any other process or plugin other than requiring epg importer.

No need for external import of epg.dat

No need to upload/download from external server.

No need for epg refresh.

No need for over the air EPG which isn't the max 7 days but just a snippet.

No need for webgrabplus.

No need to rely on Rytec or autoboquet maker which isn't always 100% up to date.

An EPG that can also possible be used for IPTV channels and not just Sat/Cable.

We are very nearly there. :eye-tongue:

:sadgun:

SlykEpg7day V1.12

new file on post 1

Picks up regional itv/stv channels whether standard lamedb file used or whether abm lamedb file used. (refs for this are now in a new file called "manual-refs". May be subject to change.

Also now has ITV, ITV HD, ITV +1, STV, STV HD for cable. STV just being Scottish West.

A little bug that a can't be bother fixing is it seems some regions also bring in ITV London + 1, as well as its own ITV +1.

This causes ITV London + 1, to show local region instead. Unless of course your are a Londoner. No big deal.

Added in further checks to prevent any more unicode errors. I know why this happens. json files are unicode. Edit the json file. It writes UTF. So we end up with a mxture of encoding.

Please tell me this now all works.