Rick's b.log - entry 2025/10/16

Getting there...

Tea v0.25x (16th October 2025) starting...
Executable built at 19:23:05 on Oct 16 2025.

Trace options:
  * Programme information parsing . . . YES
  * Multi-channel prefetching . . . . . NO
  * Grid window open/positioning  . . . NO
  * Programme searching . . . . . . . . NO
  * Scheduler . . . . . . . . . . . . . NO

prog_fetchday(0)
  Determined ctime value for midnight 2025/10/16 is 1760572800
  The URL is "https://www.freesat.co.uk/api/tv-guide?nid=28801&start=1760572800".
  The cache file is "tvguide=00".
  Fetch successful, retrieved 1543437 bytes of data in 8 centiseconds.
  (unfeasibly fast - probably pulled it from cache file)
prog_fetchday() done.

prog_extractday(0)
  Found start of service ID 10363
  We are interested in this channel ("BBC ONE Ln HD" -> 0)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 6940
  We are interested in this channel ("BBC TWO HD" -> 1)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 20830
  We are interested in this channel ("ITV1 HD" -> 2)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 8300
  We are interested in this channel ("Channel 4 HD" -> 3)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 2108
  We are interested in this channel ("5 HD" -> 4)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 6951
  We are interested in this channel ("BBC THREE HD" -> 5)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 10365
  We are interested in this channel ("BBC FOUR HD" -> 6)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 8926
  Found start of service ID 10335
  [snip lots of entries]
  Found start of service ID 8382
  We are interested in this channel ("Film4" -> 74)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 8381
  Found start of service ID 55225
  We are interested in this channel ("TalkingPics TV" -> 76)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 6952
  We are interested in this channel ("CBBC HD" -> 77)
  ...would start scanning for programmes at this point...
  Found start of service ID 10366
  Found start of service ID 55305
  [snip lots more entries]
  Found start of service ID 50482
  Found start of service ID 10329
  Scanned 128 channels and found 12 channels of interest.
  (tracking channels with no data found...TODO!)
prog_extractday() done.

I'm thinking the initial version(s) will run midnight to midnight in order to get something on-screen; I can look to doing 5am to 5am (sort of like a regular TV guide) afterwards.

Oh, and it also happily fetches tomorrow, the next day, and so on. It just doesn't, yet, parse the programmes.
Cache expiry is six hours, but I will need to put in some logic to invalidate the cache files at midnight. As you might have noticed, they're large.

Oh², if you're wondering "doesn't the program know whether or not data came from the cache... no, it doesn't. Only the fetcher knows. You ask the fetcher to fetch something (clue in the name!) and it returns the requested data. How it does it (real fetch, cache file, carrier pigeon...) is nobody else's concern.

But, alas, it's dark outside which means time to make something to eat, and then settle down with... um... Netflix? A book? Or maybe just turn the light off and listen to music? Well, after I eat. I think I'll eat one of the Lidl burger-in-a-bag thingies, I can airfry some chips to go with it.
And when I say burger-in-a-bag, I mean that quite literally. Whoever thought this was the ideal way to package a burger? I know Lidl stuff is cheap and cheerful, but you know, you'd have hoped that they'd have had more pride in their product than to be okay with it arriving on the customer's plate looking like roadkill. Burger in a bag - SMDH.

I like that they feel the need to put a pictue of a cow on the pack.

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John, 16th October 2025, 20:39

C'est des fois triste ta vie !

Rick, 17th October 2025, 14:37

Pas trop. C'est un problème de pays développé, non?

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