[mythtvnz] NZ grabber missing program data

Mark Kendall markk at kc.net.nz
Wed Sep 28 19:19:07 BST 2016



On 28/09/2016 10:41 p.m., Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:43:49 +1300, you wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 21:21 +1300, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 20:50:48 +1300, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know when it happened but my wife pointed out our program
>>>> guide
>>>> had no data.  Ran mythfilldatabase and it populated a number of
>>>> channels but there are channels with no data for several days, had
>>>> a
>>>> quick look at freeview.xml.gz and it looks like it's missing the
>>>> data.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>> I am not seeing any problem - I have data out to next Wednesday
>>> except
>>> for TV3 which only goes to Tuesday.  Have you got some examples of
>>> the
>>> gaps I can check for?
>> No data today for TV1, TV3, TV2+1 (there may be others)
>> Also no data from for TV3
>> Data for these channels starts again at around midnight on Thursday.
>>
>> Mark
> I do not have any gaps like that.  I did have a gap or two that might
> have been those times about a week ago, but it got filled in the next
> day.  And I just downloaded the freeview.xml.gz file a minute ago and
> manually checked and for TV One the data for today seems to all be
> there.
>
> To fix things immediately, you might like to do this to manually
> download the EPG and forcibly update it into the database.  Do this
> from your mythfrontend user:
>
> wget http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz
> gzip -d freeview.xml.gz
> mythfilldatabase --only-update-guide --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile
> freeview.xml
>
> Change the sourceid value to the correct sourceid for your database.
>
>
The downloaded xml was missing the data for the problematic channels.  
It appears okay now though.

Mark



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