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Since my EPG source for my Mediaportal PVR box has unfortunately been the victim of lawyers, I needed to find somewhere else to get my EPG information from.

A few hours later, I have netd_xml_tv_nz ready to go.

It is written in perl, and requires:

XML::TreeBuilder;
XML::Writer;
LWP::Simple;
DateTime::TimeZone;
DateTime::Format::Natural;
DateTime

in order to function correctly.

Configuration is performed in the channels.xml file, which contains a list of channels, the xml channel id to use for them, the url to download the xml from, and whether to actually download and import this channel or not.

<channel>
<name>TV One</name>
<url>http://listings.tvnz.co.nz/freeview/tvone_7days.xml</url>
<video>yes</video>
<channelid>tv1.freeviewnz.tv</channelid>
<download>yes</download>
</channel>

If you do not wish to download a channel, simply change

<download>yes</download>

to

<download>no</download>

Once you have run the file, the resulting xmltv file will be saved as tvguide.xml ready to import into your PVR of choice.