netdaemon-epg

EPG TV program guide for Homeassistant using NetDaemon

Provides homeassistant sensors for current tv show based on https://www.hoerzu.de/text/tv-programm/sender.php or https://tv.orf.at/. You can even use your own data provider by implementing the IDataProviderService. Please have a look at the SampleDataProviderService.

Config

epg:
  class: Mutzl.Homeassistant.Epg
  refreshrate_in_seconds: 10
  data_providers:
    - fullname: "Mutzl.Homeassistant.OrfDataProviderService"
      stations:
        - "ORF 1"
        - "ORF 2"
        - "ORF 3"
      refresh_times:
        - "06:15"
        - "9:15"
        - "15:15"
        - "19:15"
        - "20:05"
        - "21:05"
        - "22:05"
        - "23:15"
        - "00:15"
    - fullname: "Mutzl.Homeassistant.HoerzuDataProviderService"
      stations:
        - "ORF 1"
        - "ORF 2"
        - "ORF 3"
    - fullname: "Mutzl.Homeassistant.SampleDataProviderService"
      stations:
        - "TV One"
   

For every station in every data provider you will find a sensor will be created with the following naming pattern: sensor.epg_[dataprovider]_[station].

The sensors provide also attributes like BeginTime and Duration, which can be the basis for building a clientside progressbar for the current TV show. Another attribute contains the title of the upcoming show.

It is recommended, to disable the recording for those sensors, as it doesn't make much sense to keep history of all the tv guides. Especially since the description could become quite large.

recorder:
  exclude:
    entity_globs:
      - sensor.epg_*

Using a markdown card, you can get a nice visual representation of the current show - maybe within a popup of the browser-mod

Internals

The integration reads the epg data for the current and the next day at startup and then once every day at 6:30am (to minimize the load on the 3rd party server). In case your data provider changes more often than once in a day, you can also configure more refresh times. It's also possible to refresh the epg data manually by calling the service netdaemon.epg_refreshepgdata.

Based on this data, it calculates what's currently on TV using the current (local) time of your homeassistant installation and updates the sensors sensor.epg_[dataprovider]_[station] whenever a new tv show starts according to this already downloaded data.

The description of the TV show is only read from the data source whenever a current show changes.