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WebgrabPlus+ and BBC3 and BBC4
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2015 4:00 pm
by elsmandino
Hi,
Has anyone noticed that because BBC3 and BBC4 are only broadcast between 7pm and 4am, the EPG shows that any program beginning at 3:30am appears to last until 7PM.
This means that Argus is often recording hours of nothing.
Is there any clever way that I can tell Argus to only ever record between 7pm and 4am whenever a program appears on either of these two channels?
Re: WebgrabPlus+ and BBC3 and BBC4
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 7:50 am
by Christoph21x
Hey dear els
Sure, you can set up recording schedules only active in a certain period. Use the recordings settings "starting between":
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But you can also tell WG++ to only scrape the times between certain times for channes - with this you can combine to chans in one (like you may find it: during the day eg nickelodeon, during the night comedy central:
Please see the example for a "CombiChan":
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<channel period="00:00-06:00" site="tvgids.nl" site_channel="AT5" site_id="40" update="i" xmltv_id="Comb">CombiChan</channel>
<channel period="06:00-24:00" site="tv1.org" site_channel="RTL8" site_id="67" update="i" xmltv_id="Comb">CombiChan</channel>
<channel exclude="Live Tekst TV" site="tv.com" site_channel="RTL6" site_id="68" update="i" xmltv_id="Comb">CombiChan</channel>
Kind greetz - Chris
elsmandino wrote:Hi,
Has anyone noticed that because BBC3 and BBC4 are only broadcast between 7pm and 4am, the EPG shows that any program beginning at 3:30am appears to last until 7PM.
This means that Argus is often recording hours of nothing.
Is there any clever way that I can tell Argus to only ever record between 7pm and 4am whenever a program appears on either of these two channels?
Re: WebgrabPlus+ and BBC3 and BBC4
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 3:33 pm
by elsmandino
Hi Chris,
Thanks so much for that - I hadn't realised that WG++ allowed you to change scraping times for individual channels. That is exactly what I need, except that I do not need to combine any channels, I only need BBC3 HD to get information for the period that it broadcasts - 19:00 to 4:00.
This is the original entry for the channel:
<channel site="tvguide.co.uk" xmltv_id="BBC3 HD" site_id="892" update="i">BBC3 HD</channel>
Am I correct in thinking that I would need to change it to the following:
<channel period="00:00-04:00" site="tvguide.co.uk" xmltv_id="BBC3 HD" site_id="892" update="i">BBC3 HD</channel>
<channel period="19:00-00:00" site="tvguide.co.uk" xmltv_id="BBC3 HD" site_id="892" update="i">BBC3 HD</channel>
Re: WebgrabPlus+ and BBC3 and BBC4
Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 3:40 pm
by Christoph21x
Dear els
Glad having been able to help you, friend.
The second of your example config code must be
channel period="19:00-24:00" instead of 00:00
As I´m not using this feature, you might also try (let it create a sample for 1 day and import it) channel period="19:00-04:00" in only one single line.
Greetz - Chris
elsmandino wrote:Hi Chris,
Thanks so much for that - I hadn't realised that WG++ allowed you to change scraping times for individual channels. That is exactly what I need, except that I do not need to combine any channels, I only need BBC3 HD to get information for the period that it broadcasts - 19:00 to 4:00.
This is the original entry for the channel:
<channel site="tvguide.co.uk" xmltv_id="BBC3 HD" site_id="892" update="i">BBC3 HD</channel>
Am I correct in thinking that I would need to change it to the following:
<channel period="00:00-04:00" site="tvguide.co.uk" xmltv_id="BBC3 HD" site_id="892" update="i">BBC3 HD</channel>
<channel period="19:00-00:00" site="tvguide.co.uk" xmltv_id="BBC3 HD" site_id="892" update="i">BBC3 HD</channel>