New JustEPG 17 for the 5K Toppy series

With JE 5k using the broadcasters EPG (EIT):-

 

eit2mei_cttc - has the advantage of cleaning up (based on specific knowledge of local channels) the information before storing it into the Freeview.mei.  Also the default options are Australia oriented.  By default it is best if you set up a "Scheduled Scan" watch timer for 5am each day (eg go to firmware/native Timer Setting, Insert new Entry, Record=Off, Mode=Every Day, WakeupTime=05:00, Duration 30 minutes or so), this surfs your channels to make sure the EPG for each is being collected.  If you worried about very late changes (ie on the actual day) by channels also have "Background Scan" on and it might pick up the changes provided you are on or change to that channel.

 

eit2mei - same as above just without the Australian stuff I have added.

 

EPG2MEI - Newer better in some ways (tells other TAPS about changes), only works with some firmwares (probably 2006-2007) and UK oriented (and they broadcast EPG information for other networks on their channels so channel surfing or some sort of auto channel changing will be needed to fill the EPG for all channels in Australia)

 

JE V17 - Is still dumb about detecting EPG changes, but has EPG Reload Interval, so you can set to get JE to reload the EPG every x minutes.  Note with its "MEI FILE" setting it will only load one file so if you change between EPG2MEI and eit2mei make sure you delete the old EPG.MEI/Freeview.mei files so the new one will be used.

 

Advanced MEI Stuff:- You can also do merge type stuff as well (eg take broadcast EIT mei file, merge it with online guides then produce a new merged MEI file).

I also suggest checking out MyStuff TAP (for non masterpiece users) as an alternative to JustEPG/UKAS.

 

This reminds me I have written an experimental TAP that uses the spare tuner to fill the EPG so you don't have to change channels I will start a new thread in case people want that.