Get your listings

Until you know you can actually gather the listings, there is no point going any further with the TiVo.You will not get all your listings from one source. You will have to do some fiddling. Some sources are better than others. If you aren't prepared to spend some time, you may as well give up now.

I have the Canal Film + Family package. I'm not interested in the other services. Here are where to obtain listings for these stations - stations not listed I either don't get or haven't selected.

It is REALLY important to use UTC for collecting XMLTV data! If you don't, you will spend ages fiddling with timezones on your PC, TiVo etc, and drive yourself nuts. I did.

XMLTV

The good news is that listings from XMLTV are free, they are also of a very good quality! A large number of the channels you need are here. 

The basic commands to configure XMLTV for Sweden are as follows. This example is with a Windows DOS prompt way. The same method applies to Linux or a Mac.

set TZ=UTC

 xmltv tv_grab_se_swedb --configure

Then follow the prompts for choosing the channels you want. If in doubt, select all. But it is better to just choose the ones you want!

For Sweden, I recommend the following channels are downloaded using XMLTV:

• Canal First
• Canal Comedy
• Canal Drama
• Canal Hits
• Canal Action
• TV4Guld
• TV4Komedi
• TV4
• TV4Plus
• TV4SciFi
• TV4Fakta
• SVT1
• SVT2
• SVT24
• Kanal9
• Kanal5
• TV3
• TV7
• TV4Sport
• TV4Film
• TV400
• Comedy
• DiscTnL
• DiscSci
• DiscWorld
• Discovery
• Animal
• NatGeo
• TV8
• VH1
• Eurosport
• SVTB
• Nickelodeon
• Kunskapskanalen

To grab listings, you then use the following command

xmltv tv_grab_se_swedb --days 14 --output sweden.xml

This will generate an XMLTV file that can be processed later.

On the next page are the MC2XML channels