[mythtvnz] epg.org.nz

Robert Fisher robert at fisher.net.nz
Sat Jul 27 11:08:51 BST 2019


I see that I only have 3 days left too.

Robert Fisher

On Sat, 27 Jul 2019, 6:35 PM Adam Bennetts, <abennetts at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Has the new data been moved over by any chance? Guide data hasn't been
> downloading for the last few days (since Tuesday maybe?). I had a
> chance to take a look today. On my box something isn't quite right, it
> seems tv_grab_nz-py 0.2.7 can't follow the redirect.
>
> I fixed by changing:
>
>     if res.status != 200:
>         return False
>
> to
>
>     if res.status != 200:
>         log.error('HTTP Status: %s' % res.status)
>         return False
>
> to log HTTP errors and found the 301 redirect that was failing.
>
> And then this change:
>
>     h = httplib.HTTPConnection(host)
>
> to
>
>     h = httplib.HTTPSConnection(host)
>
> I then changed the source as I still seem to have a redirect issue
> with the original location (I checked the redirect itself and it's
> fine so my initial though that using HTTPSConnection would allow it to
> follow may not be right). Even if it doesn't resolve the redirect the
> change is needed.
>
>      'http://epg.nz/freeview.xml.gz',
>
> I also tried the new guide data at https://epg.nz/epg.xml and didn't
> see any obvious issues with it. There are differences to old data
> (subtitles?) that mean some recording rules duplicate checks needed to
> be changed but that's not a guide data issue.
>
> Thanks for the data, much appreciated.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 12:07, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The box that generates the listings for epg.org.nz is going away in the
> > near future.
> >
> > That doesn't mean that the listings are going away, just the old box and
> > tuner card etc. that is used to capture the listings - it's pretty old
> now.
> >
> > I'm testing out a new version of listings that doesn't require any
> > physical hardware, you can test a sample here:
> >
> > https://epg.nz/epg.xml
> >
> > This will be replacing the existing data. I believe it's currently
> > missing a few fixups etc. that the existing data has which will be
> > worked on as time permits.
> >
> > If anyone wants to test it out and report any obvious errors that would
> > be appreciated.
> >
> > Once it's ready the old URL will be re-pointed so scripts should all
> > continue to work etc. with minimal interruption hopefully.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > hads
> > --
> > http://nice.net.nz
> >
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