ABC2, SBS-News wrong due to daylight savings

[Greystorm]

I've seen a few people post about this problem, but no solutions.

OzTivo has regionalised data for Qld, NSW, WA etc for most of the channels, but the ABC2 and SBS-News channels are common to all of Australia and only appear once.

During daylight savings time, in Brisbane (and I imagine all of Queensland) the ABC2 and SBS-News guide data is out by 1 hour, everything is listed as starting 1 hour earlier than it actually does.

I'm using BRP 3.5 and OzTivo Extreme as per the instructions in the sticky at the top of this forum.

Does anyone have a solution for the backwards states that don't have daylight savings?

[Dazama]

G'day Greystorm

I had the same problem but i have it the other way around a as I am on the NSW side of the Gold Coast.

I use the OzTivoTimeOffset app found in the downloads section here

Instructions are included on the download page and below are my settings so i get Prime and NBN on NSW time..

/o:-100 /f:GuideData\xmltv.xml /c:PrimeN /c:NBN-GC

the /o:-100 removes 1 hour, /f:... the path to the XML file, /c:.... the station names as per OzTivo

This will now subtract 1 hour for those two stations only then blade processes the XML file

Hope this is of help - Merry Christmas All

Daz

[Greystorm]

Thanks Dazama, I'll give this a shot

It worked perfectly. I'll just have to remember to get rid of it when daylight savings ends.

Maybe the app could be programmed to check the date and do a conditional shift, depending on if it's in daylight savings or not? Might see if I can contact the author.

Thanks again.

[Dazama]

Good Luck - and what a xmas pressie to get a properly working EPG

[epgStream]

Errr... Merry Christmas?

[kz]

For whatever reason SBS-NT times are out by 30 mins for NT regional areas (Alice Springs). The TimeOffset detailed here and noted by Dazama seemed like a solution. I'm using BRP/OzTivo and ran the configurator to adjust the times for SBS-NT but nothing changed, although the log indicates that the file was processed:

2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Time Offset v1.02 Started
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Found channel argument - SBS-NT
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Using supplied time offset of '-0030'
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Opening 'GuideData\xmltv.xml' for input
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Opening 'GuideData\xmltv.xml.tmp' for output
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Processing records...
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Finished processing records...
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Changed 223 time instances for channel 'SBS-NT'
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Closing output file
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Closing input file
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Deleting 'GuideData\xmltv.xml'
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Renaming 'GuideData\xmltv.xml.tmp' to 'GuideData\xmltv.xml'
2007-01-14 17:38:21 : Processing complete


My PreProcessor addition looks like this:

Name: OzTivoTimeOffset
FIle: C:\WINDOWS\ehome\BladeRunnerPro\TimeOffset.exe
Argument: /O:-30 /F:GuideData\xmltv.xml /C:SBS-NT

The Dakar Rally which started at 5:30pm is still in the Guide as starting at 6pm as before I added this pre-processor.

Any clues as to how I can get the guide corrected for SBS-NT?

Nev

[ZLoserKing]

*SNIP*

There is a problem with the program it doesn't recognise spaces.

IE "ABC2" is not "ABC2 HD" but you can be mistaken into thinking the app ran correctly.

I changed the guide listing to be ABC2 in MCE instead of ABC2 HD and the guide is now correct.

the question is , is it sill pointing to the right channel? Currently recording.

My head hurts.