pwhodges 1527 Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Most of my clients (but not iOS) have at the bottom of TV recordings a link to "Zap2It". Wikipedia tells me that this is a site with details of US and Canadian TV listings only, so I guess it is useless if you are somewhere else (like me). But in any case, the address is not accessible - a DNS lookup on it fails. It seems to me that something needs checking out here... Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37052 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 What url are you seeing that for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Questor3030 0 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) It's a legacy name of the Schedules Direct service. I'm a long-time subscriber by route of NextPVR / XBMC I am in the U.S., but I found some forum posts saying they deliver U.K. schedules as well. Looks like digital terrestrial stations are well covered but DVB-S might not have everything, if you use that. Edited July 2, 2020 by Questor3030 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1527 Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 5 hours ago, Luke said: What url are you seeing that for? tvlistings.zap2it.com itself is not resolving. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 How old are the recordings? Emby hasn't used Schedules Direct since they closed source. Or maybe there is something orphaned in the code? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceboy 2493 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 How old are the recordings? Emby hasn't used Schedules Direct since they closed source. Or maybe there is something orphaned in the code?Nothing to stop you using Schedules Direct though. I do through xmltv as I emby’s epg matching is only really good for hdhr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Spaceboy said: Nothing to stop you using Schedules Direct though. I do through xmltv as I emby’s epg matching is only really good for hdhr Yes, that's true. @pwhodges doesn't mention if they are using the built in or other guide service. I just assumed the question wouldn't have been asked if they knew that service was being used. I have a HDHR, and like you said, it works quite well for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1527 Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) I am using the Emby guide with my HDHR, and this Zap2It link appears below recordings in all the clients I've checked except the iOS one. I had no idea what it was, clicked it (on Android) and had my client hang. In the browser I get an error message: Since the web site doesn't even work, I wondered whether it was useful to have a link to it there. Paul Edited July 2, 2020 by pwhodges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8279 Posted July 2, 2020 Share Posted July 2, 2020 (edited) Assume a geo location restriction. I can only assume the zapit ids come from TVDB example as you can see they list the zapit external link. https://thetvdb.com/series/the-100 <Data> <Series> <id>268592</id> <Actors>|Ricky Whittle|Eliza Taylor|Eve Harlow|Adina Porter|Henry Ian Cusick|Jordan Bolger|Eli Goree|Alycia Debnam-Carey|Marie Avgeropoulos|Alessandro Juliani|Zach McGowan|Isaiah Washington|Brenda Strong|Erica Cerra|Richard Harmon|Bob Morley|Lola Flanery|Chelsey Reist|Paige Turco|Shelby Flannery|Johnny Whitworth|Steve Talley|Christopher Larkin|Ivana Milicevic|Jarod Joseph|Thomas McDonell|Raymond J. Barry|Lindsey Morgan|Devon Bostick|William Miller|Michael Beach|</Actors> <Airs_DayOfWeek>Wednesday</Airs_DayOfWeek> <Airs_Time>8:00 PM</Airs_Time> <ContentRating>TV-14</ContentRating> <FirstAired>2014-03-19</FirstAired> <Genre>|Action|Drama|Science Fiction|Suspense|Thriller|</Genre> <IMDB_ID>tt2661044</IMDB_ID> <Language>en</Language> <Network>The CW</Network> <NetworkID>267</NetworkID> <Overview>Set ninety-seven years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet.
 </Overview> <Rating>8.3</Rating> <RatingCount>4203</RatingCount> <Runtime>45</Runtime> <SeriesID>183133</SeriesID> <SeriesName>The 100</SeriesName> <Status>Continuing</Status> <added>2013-04-09 18:54:34</added> <addedBy/> <banner>graphical/268592-g2.jpg</banner> <fanart>fanart/original/268592-5.jpg</fanart> <lastupdated>1593384238</lastupdated> <poster>posters/268592-2.jpg</poster> <zap2it_id>SH01740398</zap2it_id> </Series> Edited July 2, 2020 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwhodges 1527 Posted July 2, 2020 Author Share Posted July 2, 2020 Georestrictions are common on web sites of course, but I must admit I've never seen one that operated on the DNS lookup; I didn't know that was even possible, not least because the DNS infrastructure is entirely independent of any website. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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