[mythtvnz] Issue with tv_grabnz-py. Have workaround but not resolved.

[Brett Davidson]

On 05/04/11 16:56, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Brett Davidson<brett at davidson.gen.nz>  wrote:
>> G'day.
>>
>> Installed MythTV via Mythbuntu 10.10.
>> All good. (I can watch TV that is, if I configure the input channels manually within myth-backend).
>>
>> Downloaded the tv_grab_nz-py file, made it executable and tried to create a new input source using this.
>>
>> Video source name: Freeview
>> Listings grabber: New Zealand (py) (xmltv)
>>
>> On main mythtv backend screen when running configure I get :
>> Initialising cookies: ######################################
>> Getting list of channels from DSTVB site:no channels could be found a
>> *** Exited with status: 255 ***
>>
>> On Terminal that started mythtv backend get:
>> 2011-04-05 15:06:04.454 XMLTVFindGrabbers: Running tv_find_grabbers baseline
>> 2011-04-05 15:06:09.991 XMLTVFindGrabbers: Finished running tv_find_grabbers
>>
>> If I scan for channels manually within each "Input Connection" ->  "Fetch channels from listing source" then nothing happens.
>>
>> If I scan for channels manually within each "Input Connection" ->  "Scan channels" then get working TV channels! Yaay!
>>
>> Problem is that this is not getting the grabber working.
>>
>> If I run grabber from command line with no options then I get what appears to be valid xml of the channel listings.
>>
>> A correct listings file is created in ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_nz-py.conf so is mythtv config not specifiying the .mythtv path?
>>
>> Copying this file to ~/.mythtv/Freeview.xmltv makes everything work. (Well mythfilldatabase asks me some good questions anyway).
>>
>> Is everything going to be OK from now on or is there anything I can/should run to ensure I have the system setup correctly?
> You need to ensure that each channel has an xmltv-id associated with
> it. do this in mythweb. I posted how to get to the right page in
> another thread on this list earlier today.
>
You mean this is different than what the mythfilldatabase asked for?
(channelid, channel name, channel number and a whole lot of other 
detailed questions)?

*Runs away to check*
Nope - looks OK. Will see, I guess.

Brat.