Open Laibalion opened 4 years ago
For some reason the Prime_source value for one of your channels is not properly set. Can you include your configuration and log, so I can check why?
You have two channels enabled in your config file that only get data from nieuwsblad.be: ROB_TV (Chanid=8-rob-tv) and Ketnet (Chanid=8-ketnet). They where also available on primo but that source is dead. So if you want to disable nieuwsblad first disable those channels. It is a bug that it crashes instead of simply removing the channel and I will fix that in a next update of the program.
That's weird. Humo.be, tvgids.nl and tvgids.tv also have info for Ketnet. ROB_TV is a local station and indeed I can disable that one and just use the internal EPG for that. Is there a way i can configure it that Ketnet uses Humo as prime data source?
Nieuwsblad is the only one with just the Ketnet programming. On al the other sources Ketnet is combined with Één+ and Canvas+ so you must to get that data select the Ketnet/Eén+/Canvas+;2;1-ketnet-canvas-2 channel. At the top of your log you see all active setting.
Another alternative is to not disable nieuwsblad global, but per channel. For instance:
# Eén
[Channel 0-5]
prime_source = 10
disable_source = 8
Not sure I understand. For example https://www.humo.be/tv-gids/ketnet has only ketnet programming (which be handy as it also has a lot of season and episode information in it's details, Which is actually the reason I wanted to disable source 8, as it often doesn't have a lot of details or season/episode information). Or do you mean the sources are configure in such way that it doesn't know about Ketnet standalone?
Maybe this has changed, but I do not handle the channel configuration. The data from Humo is since their recent big update a bit in flux and I am sure my colleague will update on any chance in the future.
Not sure where to post this, but if this project is interested in a comprehensive, provider offered TV guide, Telenet has one @ https://www.telenettv.be/nl/tv/tv-guide.html. It has all the icons too for Belgian stations. Maybe useful to pick up as source in a new version?
The thing with the season/episode data is another thing. I'm still researching. My present guess is that this data is not initially added but on a later date. Base pages are reread for the current day, but detail pages are not. So that's work in progress. Oh and disabling the nieuwsblad source won't give you what you are looking for. I have also been looking into replacement sources for Primo, but no decision has yet been made.
alright, thanks for the information. Will be eagerly await updated versions.
Just fyi, once I got this script/tool up and running on my NAS, which was a bit annoying due to security settings, it's super nice for the most part. In parallel I'm also running Plex with it's LiveTV and DVR facilities, and to be honest, their EPG is currently horrible, which some channels having completely wrong timeframes etc... So this solution actually is giving me better results than their payed solution ;).
Yes getting it to run on a NAS is troublesome. Any channel/source updates are transparent. If a fresh configuration run is needed it will show in your log file.
Is there a mechanism with which we can suggest improvements to for example channel icons? Or do we just create seperate 'issues' for those? I don't fully understand yet where the current ones are comming from, or how their url is formed. For a lot of the Belgian ones, they can be sourced from Telenet's cdn. for example https://www2.telenet.be/content/dam/www-telenet-be/img/channels/VIJF.png for the station VIJF, https://www2.telenet.be/content/dam/www-telenet-be/img/channels/vtm.png for VTM, etc...
The Humo.be page for Ketnet DOES have Een+/Canvas+ programming, it's the shows that air between 20:00-06:00, although right now its just VGT and open audiodescriptie programming since sports are currently shutdown so there's no live Sporza programming to air: https://www.humo.be/tv-gids/ketnet
The Nieuwsblad source for Ketnet only includes the 06:00-20:00 programming and doesn't display the overnight een+/canvas+ programming: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/tv-gids/ketnet
Instead they have een+/canvas+ listed as a seperate channel: https://www.nieuwsblad.be/tv-gids/eenplus
So we have a process that when you select Ketnet/Een+/Canvas+ (1-ketnet-canvas-2) it automatically merges in the two nieuwsblad pages 8-ketnet and 8-eenplus.
I'll look into the logos soon, I can get most of them via Nieuwsblad.
@kyl416 now I feel like an idiot :D. By using channel Ketnet/Eén+/Canvas+, it gets the programming from vrt.be's tv guide instead, which seems to have season/episode info in their basic fetch. Hoeray! And indeed, I can disable source 8 now (as I disabled ROB_Tv and standalone Ketnet). There is still some issues with detail fetches for example Nickelodeon/Spike (for example Blaze en de monsterwielen isn't getting season/episode info). But there is another issue open here.
Specifically for this 'issue', maybe it's enough to write to log which channels loose their only source, which causes the source disabling to fail?
When trying to disable source 8 via --disable-source 8, and error happens when writing the config file: