<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 Nov 2017 7:31 pm, "Robert Fisher" <<a href="mailto:robert@fisher.net.nz">robert@fisher.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><h3 style="font-family:"times new roman"">These are the notes that I used when I first setup my system:-</h3><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">1) Download tv_grab_nz-py from </span><a href="http://nice.net.nz/tv_grab_nz-py/" style="color:rgb(85,26,139);font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">ht<wbr>tp://nice.net.nz/tv_grab_nz-<wbr>py/</a><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium"> </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">2) Copy tv_grab_nz-py to /usr/local/bin.  Make sure that it is executable. (sudo chmod +x tv_grab_nz-py)</span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">3) Configure it. Note that the configuration file name must match that </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">name of the video source configured in mythtv-setup for the </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">mythbackend/mythfilldatabase to use this grabber. </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">tv_grab_nz-py --configure --config-file ~/.mythtv/<video sources name>.xmltv </span><br style="font-family:"times new roman""><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">Step 3 had some problems for me but it was overcome by copying and editing another <video sources name>.xmltv</span><br style="font-family:"times new roman""><br style="font-family:"times new roman""><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">You also need to symlink otherwise mythfilldatabase will not work automatically (it uses the user mythtv) </span><br style="font-family:"times new roman""><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">sudo ln -s </span><i style="font-family:"times new roman"">/home/yourusername/</i><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">.mythtv/<wbr>Freeview.xmltv </span><i style="font-family:"times new roman"">/home/mythtv/</i><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">.<wbr>mythtv/Freeview.xmltv </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">4) To see if the xmltv side of things works run </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">tv_find_grabbers </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">This should return a list of all the installed grabbers, which should </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">include tv_grab_nz-py. </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">5) To see if the myth side of things works run </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">mythfilldatabase </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">Pay close attention to the output of this. If it looks like it worked, </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">the MythWeb status page should also show a successful run. </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">6) On the master backend run mythsetup and </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">a) In Video Sources set "New Zealand (py)" as the grabber for your </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">Video Source. </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">b) In General, on the Mythfilldatabase page (its the last page) enable </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">"Automatically run mythfilldatabase". Configure time, frequency, etc </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">to suite. Now Myth should use tv_grab_nz-py to update EPG </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">periodically. The MythWeb status page shows when it was last run and </span><br style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica;font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:medium">what the results were.</span><font color="#888888"><br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Robert Fisher</div></font></div><div class="elided-text"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/2017 11:54 AM, "me" <<a href="mailto:08004us@gmail.com" target="_blank">08004us@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all<br>
<br>
Could someone contact me off-list wrt activating the EPG grabber py.<br>
<br>
I'm Linux literate, and have re-vamped most of the menus for our own needs, but...<br>
<br>
I need a shove in the right direction to implement the automated script to harvest the fruits of the EPG fairy!<br>
<br>
After many years of MythTV being in our home, we're getting a bit over missing programs because they are "all new" etc.<br>
<br>
Many thanks<br>
<br>
Noel.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">Great guide, thanks Robert. </div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">Quick question (since I can't remember from when I did use this grabber and source), does this pull in EPG data for Al Jazeera? For some reason that's the only channel that isn't getting over the air EIT for me, and I may use tv_grab_nz-py for this channel alone.</div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div></div>