NoLineupProposal

This proposal is in the making

This proposal by Karl Dietz on how to match channels from a channel scan to channels in the guide without lineups is an alternative to LineupProposal and LineupProposal2. The process of configuring a consuming application should be like.

• install application and hardware
• pick a guide source (and do the basic configuration, everything but selecting the channels)
• perform a scan to find all available channels
• the application shall connect the available channels to the guide channels

The API for the consuming application:

• "tv_find_grabbers" will offer all installed xmltv grabbers
• "tv_grab_xxx --configure-api --stage start" will optionally collect configuration data until it says "next stage is channel selection"
• "tv_grab_xxx --list-channels" will list all available channels

(note that the list might be a subset of all theoretically available channels due to being restricted to

1. a lineup
2. the country for which you bought the guide
3. upstream channel selection

in the earlier configuration stages)

• "tv_grab_xxx --configure-api --stage select-channels"