Mhwepg
Description
MediaHighWay EPG is a program to receive EPG data via satellite, the information is made available by Canal+ group (Mediahighway receivers).
Mhwepg transforms the EPG data in a VDR compliant format.
Channels
- Canal Digitaal (Netherlands)
- Digital+ (Spain)
- Canal+/CanalSatellite (France)
- Sky (Italia)
- Cyfra+ (Poland)
Hardware requirements
- Driver API 3 (current drivers are not supported)
Software requirements
- Mhwepg
- Loadepg
- Perl
- At (job manager)
Installation
cd $SOURCEDIR tar -zxvf mhwepg-<VERSION>.tar.gz cd mhwepg-<VERSION> tar -jxvf loadepg--<VERSION>.tar.bz2 patch < mhwepg-<VERSION>.diff
Configuration
The following entries goes to the commands.conf
Canal Digitaal (Netherlands)] : echo "cd $SOURCEDIR/mhwepg && ./loadepg.pl -d localhost -p 2001 -s S19.2E -f 12515"|at now Digital+ (Spain)] : echo "cd $SOURCEDIR/mhwepg && ./loadepg.pl -d localhost -p 2001 -s S19.2E -f 10847"|at now Canal+/CanalSatellite (France)] : echo "cd $SOURCEDIR/mhwepg && ./loadepg.pl -d localhost -p 2001 -s S19.2E -f 12363"|at now Sky (Italia)] : echo "cd $SOURCEDIR/mhwepg && ./loadepg.pl -d localhost -p 2001 -s S13.0E -f 11880"|at now Cyfra+ (Poland)] : echo "cd $SOURCEDIR/mhwepg && ./loadepg.pl -d localhost -p 2001 -s S13.0E -f 10719"|at now
If everything went right, the following can be found in the /var/log/mhwepg.log
UTC Offset = 0 Country = ESP, Region = 1 Local Time Offset = 3600 Next Local Time Offset = 7200 Date of change = 25/03/2001 Reading titles ... Reading summaries ... Nb of summaries : 12419 Nb of titles : 11588 Writing EPG data to file ... Nb of channels = 82
Problems
Don't know if something changed in the driver in kernel 2.6, but I couldn't get the program to work even after patching. It seems that the default buffer size is too small for everything to work smoothly.
What solved my problem was adding the following lines at the beginning of SetFiltSection, right after the line
struct dmx_sct_filter_params sctFilterParams;
if (ioctl(fd, DMX_SET_BUFFER_SIZE, 10*188*1024)<0) {
perror("DMX SET BUFFER SIZE");
exit(0);
}
I'm puzzled because 10*188*1024 should be the default buffer size, but before the modification it didn't work, now it does so....
Links
| [1] | http://jrepetto.free.fr | Mhwepg homepage |