[mythtvnz] Simple Script For Pulling EPG into MythTV

[Curtis Walker]

OK.

Runnng 'mythfilldatabase -v -xmltv' (after running the tv_grab_nz-py 
script) errors:
2011-09-23 21:04:32.030 FillData, Error: xmltv returned error code 512
2011-09-23 21:04:32.064 Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file

Running mythtv-setup, I set the nz-py script as the grabber, set 
mthdatabasefill's arguments to xmlv then hit 'configure'. THe terminal 
mythtv-setup is running in shows:
2011-09-23 19:48:19.294 XMLTVConfig::Load: Running 'tv_find_grabbers 
baseline'.
2011-09-23 19:48:19.925 XMLTVConfig::Load: Finished running 
tv_find_grabbers

...and it just hangs there.


On 22/09/11 22:13, Roger Searle wrote:
> 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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