[edit4ever]

I was happy to find this python script (add kodi addon) to import schedules direct data into tvheadend as an xmltv file...

https://github.com/astrilchuk/sd2xmltv

However, it was originally setup to replace the program genre with a short list of accepted strings. Now tvheadend (and other backends) can accept most of the program genre categories.

I'm hoping someone with a better understanding can take a quick look at the sd2xmltv.py file and recommend changes that will just import the actual genres that are in the schedules direct data.

On a separate note - there seems to be an issue pulling over the channel icon info into the xmltv file as well. Not sure where that is breaking.

Thanks for looking!!

[edit4ever]

Solved this...looks like the code was already in there just hashed out. Here are the changes to make on lines 357-360 of the sd2xmltv.py file

PHP Code:

#        self._add_program_categories(p, channel, airing, program)

        for genre in program.genres:
            p.add_category(genre) 


You basically hash out the self._add_program_categories(p, channel, airing, program) line and delete the hash in front of the next two lines.

Now all genres will be output into the xmltv file!

...Now I just need to get the team at Tvheadend to pass all the category names through to kodi instead of trying to match the DVB list.