[mythtvnz] EPG NZ howto

[Nick Rout]

Robert Fisher wrote:
> Robert Fisher wrote:
>> From the wiki...
>>
>> Setting up your EPG and Channels - a simple method which worked for me.
>> wget http://ontv.orcon.net.nz/listings.xml (or whatever listings.xml 
>> you choose)
>> run "mythsetup" and delete all channels (previously manually setup)
>> run "mythfilldatabase --file 1 7 listings.xml --do_channel_updates" 
>> (This puts in most of the channel info needed.)
>> run "mythsetup" again adding to the new channels Channel No., TV 
>> Format and Frequency ID
>> Also we manually added channels for Sky and C4 which ar not in the 
>> ONTV epg.
>>
> Also from the same Wiki....
>
> Programme Guide
> to get the NZ epg data working I gave up trying to get 
> mythfilldatabase working the way its meant to. instead I wrote this 
> shell script and added it to the crontab once a day..
>
> cd /home/mythtv
> rm -f /home/mythtv/latest.xml
> wget http://hairy.geek.nz/epg/latest.xml.gz
> gzip -d latest.xml.gz
> mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 latest.xml --update
>
> before you run this you need to import the nz channels,
>
> wget http://hairy.geek.nz/epg/latest.xml.gz
> gzip -d latest.xml.gz
> mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 latest.xml --manual
> and answer all the questions (hint: use 
> http://hairy.geek.nz/epg/service-ids.txt to figure out which channel 
> is which)

--manual is very tedious, you have to input something from the keyboard 
for every darn channel. I am trying the first suggestion ie 
--do_channel_updates