[mythtvnz] Bravo + DUKE

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:31:24 +1300, you wrote:

>On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 16:36:59 +1300, you wrote:
>
>>On 7 October 2016 at 13:36, Stephen Worthington
>><stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 12:50:06 +1300, you wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 7 October 2016 at 11:49, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7 October 2016 at 07:06, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just did wget http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz
>>>>>> and checked the file and found that there is no data for the problem
>>>>>> channels.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Where do we go from here?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You can call me impatient if you like but I do not know what to do next.
>>>>> Surely I cannot be the only one worried about epg data running out.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>You could use the EIT data for the missing channels.
>>>>
>>>>Cheers
>>>>Bruce
>>>
>>> Or use mhegepgsnoop.
>>>
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>>
>>With the early demise of Schedules Direct I might have to actually get
>>mhegepgsnoop working. I got it downloaded and running, but it spits
>>out a black file, even though it looks to be pointing at my adapter
>>card directly.
>>
>>Other than the readme (which is helpful to a point) are there any
>>other dummies guides to integrating it into a mythtv setup?
>
>The simple way to do it is as a cron job, where you run mhepgsnoop to
>produce an EPG file, say freeview.xml, and then run:
>
>mythfilldatabase --file --sourceid <yoursourceid> --xmlfile
>freeview.xml
>
>I have not tried it, but apparently the Freeview DVB-T channels now
>have the same EPG data on EIT as they do on MHEG5, so you may just be
>able to set MythTV to collect EIT data automatically from one or more
>DVB-T tuner.

And I normally add the --only-update-guide option to mythfilldatabase,
so it does not try to do any channel changes, which does not work well
in NZ.