Tvheadend

Hi,

From the pieces of information I found by googling, it seems that tvheadend merged EPG data from different sources before version 4.1 of tvheadend. Thus, a procedure to find matching events in the different EPG sources might already exist.

Currently, the different EPG sources have got a priority and the data of the event with the highest priority wins and fills all the fields of the event.

From my empirical tests, it even erases the information of lower priority EPG sources, if the field in the higher priority source is empty. Thus, could you please consider having a higher priority source not erase an already filled event field, if it does not have data to replace it with. For example:

Let's assume that we have a low priority EPG source, that contains episode information and a higher priority EPG source without the episode information. It might be sensible to keep the episode information from the lower priority source instead of erasing it because the higher priority source has an empty episode field.

Somebody might ask: Why not swap the priorities of the sources?

An answer to this question might be: Because the higher priority source is the EIT data, which also contains last minute changes.

Thanks for reading this and maybe take some actions about it.

Have a nice day.