[mythtvnz] How do you make mythtv-setup 'see' tv_grab_nz-py.py?

Hadley Rich hads at nice.net.nz
Thu May 20 00:05:11 BST 2010


On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:51 +1200, Richard Clarke wrote:
>  I'm currently in the process of trying to set up my Master backend on
> my server which is Mythbuntu 10.04 based. I'm struggling with the set
> up of the tv_grab_nz-py.py epg grabber, or rather making mythtv-setup
> 'see' the grabber. I would ideally like mythfilldatabase do the
> running of the script automatically (I believe this is possible)
> rather than running the script 'manually' and then having
> mythfilldatabase suck in the resulting xmltv listings file (though
> that's my back up plan if I can't get mythtv-setup to see the grabber
> itself).

Welcome.

MythTV uses tv_find_grabbers to find the grabbers, it's easier to test
with that from the CLI than open mythtv-setup all the time.

I think all you need is xmltv installed and tv_gran_nz-py in your
(mythtv's) path and it should work. Anything named tv_grab* is fine
IIRC.

hads
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