[mythtvnz] Simple Script For Pulling EPG into MythTV

[Roger Searle]

On 21/09/11 22:08, Curtis Walker wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a noob, but here is a very simple shell script for pulling NZ EPG 
> data (8 days' worth) into your MythTV backend.
>
> Apologies to all if this is telling you how to suck eggs, but the 
> various other methods on geekzone and this mailing list either seemed 
> a) complicated or b) didn't work for me (tv_grab_nz-py and Myth on my 
> setup didn't work properly - possibly something to do with Arch linux 
> running Python 3).
>
> As you can see, this script will download the freeview.xml.gz file 
> from nzepg.org, unzip it, install it into Myth's backend, then clean 
> up. Running it as a cron task daily at 3am, you never need be without 
> an up-to-date EPG!
>
> *#! /bin/bash
> wget http://nzepg.org/freeview.xml.gz
> gunzip freeview.xml.gz
> mythfilldatabase --file 1 freeview.xml --update
> rm freeview.xml
> exit
> *
Thanks Curtis, nice timing for me as my first batch of data had nearly 
expired and I wasn't clear why mythtv itself wouldn't update it for me.  
I've got another 8 days' worth again, using these lines.

While I could of course run this via cron, I'm interested to discover 
what needs to be done to have mythtv doing it for me, as I understood 
that was supposed to happen. I have

Channel Frequency Table = New Zealand
mythfilldatabase run frequency (days) = 1
mythfilldatabase execution start = 2
mythfilldatabase execution stop = 5
Run mythfilldatabase at time suggested by the grabber = yes
Video source setup listings grabber = New Zealand (py) (xmltv)

Yet the EPG data was on it's last day.  What have I missed?

Cheers,
Roger


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