[mythtvnz] EPG NZ howto

Nick Rout mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Sun, 27 May 2007 09:15:35 +1200


Robert Fisher wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>> OK I got a listings.xml.gz from nice and gunzipped it, then ran:
>>
>> mythfilldatabase --update --file 1 -1 listings.xml
>>
>> But it said it skipped every channel as it had an unknown id
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> From the wiki...
>
> Setting up your EPG and Channels - a simple method which worked for me.
> wget http://ontv.orcon.net.nz/listings.xml (or whatever listings.xml 
> you choose)
> run "mythsetup" and delete all channels (previously manually setup)
> run "mythfilldatabase --file 1 7 listings.xml --do_channel_updates" 
> (This puts in most of the channel info needed.)
> run "mythsetup" again adding to the new channels Channel No., TV 
> Format and Frequency ID
> Also we manually added channels for Sky and C4 which ar not in the 
> ONTV epg.

Thanks, there are three or four subtly different incantations of setting 
it up in that wiki, thanks for pointing that one out, I'll do it now.

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