[mythtvnz] No EPG, what am i doing wrong

[Curtis Walker]

Good to see activity for the NZ MythTV group after such a long time.

Having somewhat resurrected my MythTV box after not using it for a
while (now updated to v.32/fixes, under Arch linux), I'm having
trouble with EPG data like others. Trouble is, it's been so many years
since I first set all this up, I've forgotten where all of the config
files and scripts are!

So far, I've started fresh, deleting my old channels, and doing a full
re-scan, which found all the new channels, such as Eden. I can watch
Live TV fine. They've all got xmltv ID's (tv1.freeviewnz.tv etc).

Downloading from epg.org.nz and using it with mythfilldatabase, I have
7 days programme guide data for Māori TV, PRIME, Duke on 12, Eden+1,
Te Reo and all the 'minor' channels (18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 31, 33, RNZ).

However, there is no data for TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, TV 3, Bravo, Duke on
channel 6, TV2+1, Eden, Bravo plus 1, TV1+1, Three+1 or Rush.

I've fiddled with EIT and tv_grab_nz-py stuff as well, but no data.

My old shell script to update the database doesn't work either:
#! /bin/bash
wget http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz
gunzip freeview.xml.gz
mythfilldatabase --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile freeview.xml
rm freeview.xml
exit

I'm sure this is some config error. Eventually got mhegepgsnoop.py
(0.71) running (after realising I needed a tuner open and running),
but the resultant xml file is empty.

Confused!


On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 08:19, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz> wrote:
>
> I am happy to try this Stephen but I wonder if you could help by posting
> instructions "for dummies".
>
> (I am very good at following good instructions)
>
> On 8/04/22 00:41, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> > I have put a new version of mhegepgsnoop on my web server:
> >
> > http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mhegepgsnoop-0.7.2.py
> >
> > This has a new option "--hdhr" which makes it compatible with Mike's
> > script for capturing a .ts file from an HDHomerun tuner and then
> > getting mhegepgsnoop to read from that file using dvbsnoop.
> >
> > As I do not have an HDHomerun tuner, this will need testing by someone
> > who does - please let me know the results.  I have tested it with the
> > -s option to use dvbsnoop on my DVB-T tuners, and it still works
> > properly like that.
> >
>
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