[vdr] Re: where to get EPG-data from

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> 
> Gerhard Steiner wrote:
> >
> > As I already wrote, I send a mail to tvtv.de to ask them to
> > get the data in a legal way.
> > They will definitely not do this.
> >
> > I am alos using epg2timers and it's great.
> >
> > I am looking to get the epg-data in an legal way!
> 
> I could offer to upload the epg.data generated by my VDR once a day
> to our server. I guess there shouldn't be much legal consideration here,
> since the data is publicly available through the DVB data stream, anyway.
> 
> Try the file from
> 
>   ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/people/kls/vdr/epg.data.gz
> 
> If you copy it into your /video directory and restart VDR you should
> have the current EPG data. This is for the channels defined in the default
> channels.conf on Astra.
> 
> Let me know if this is useful. I'll set up a crontab entry then which
> uploads this once a day.

I've now automated this process. At 06:00 CEST (German time) every day
the file

  ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/pub/people/kls/vdr/epg.data.bz2

will be uploaded and will contain the EPG data of the channels defined in
the default 'channels.conf' file that comes with the VDR distribution
(actually these will be the channels I currently have in _my_ 'channels.conf',
but this is usually identical with the one delivered).

To avoid race conditions I suggest to download this file at least few minutes later.

Please understand that I need to reserve the right to discontinue this service
any time without prior notice.

Klaus
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