How to read EPG from dreambox

[dexterp]

Hello guys!

Has anybody any information regarding how db stores EPG informations and where? I cant download enigma source to examine it (because i cant get win cvs working with this server i guess because of encryption) ...

Any help would be apreaciated!

Thanks!

Dexter

[talius]

Originally Posted by dexterp

Hello guys!

Has anybody any information regarding how db stores EPG informations and where? I cant download enigma source to examine it (because i cant get win cvs working with this server i guess because of encryption) ...

Any help would be apreaciated!

Thanks!

Dexter

Hi dexterp
I don't know if it can help you but you can try to implement the following lines in your code and see what happens:

First do a test to the DB to determine the enigma ver.
then implementing a HTTP client in your app and run the following lines:

for 107 based enigama
http://DB IP here/cgi-bin/getcurrentepg2?ref=1:0:1:3f8:a:46:fff60000:0:0:0:

for 108 based enigma
http://DB IP here/getcurrentepg2?ref=1:0:1:3f8:a:46:fff60000:0:0:0:

for 108.2 based enigma
http://DB IP here/getcurrentepg?type=extended&ref=1:0:1:3f8:a:46:fff60000:0:0:0:

The red colored text is just an example of ServiceID, StreamID, NetworkID and Namespace which is unique for every channel.

Remember that you have to consider a http authentication if needed.

Then using a loop like for (i = 0; i <= services; i++) and the lines above you can build your EPG data base.

That is the way how I do it in DBTimerDeLuxe.

Hope it helps

regards
talius

[dexterp]

Thank you I was already thinking about using web interface for it, i was dreaming about a faster way

Btw, is there any way to recognize enigma image version?
And do we have to manually parse html response file?

Dexter

[zigzag2]

maybe take a look at Pent's sources(MV Plugin) for how to access enigma's EPG

[talius]

Originally Posted by dexterp

Thank you I was already thinking about using web interface for it, i was dreaming about a faster way

Btw, is there any way to recognize enigma image version?
And do we have to manually parse html response file?

Dexter

I don’t know if there is any sufficient way of determining enigma version. However what is interesting here is the version of the web interface.
I just analyzed the html response on the home page and found something what is unique for each image. Then I recognize the version by this unique element.

Regarding parsing the html response, you have to handle the response using appropriate routines in your programming environment. It is mainly about strings handling routines.

regards
talius

[dexterp]

Does anybody know where dreambox EPG cache is stored?

[erix]

You might want to look in apps/tuxbox/enigma/lib/dvd/epgcache.cpp file in tuxbox-cvs. I have a hunch that it is not stored anywhere permanently. In enigma you can get the cache by getting the instance of the eEPGCache object. So maybe the best is to use the HTTP to get the EPG if you wnat it from outside of enigma.

There is also an XMLRPC code in enigma, though it is not clear yet to me exactly what services are provided (?) if any.

PS: You can browse the code also online -> http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/