[mythtvnz] need help installing epgsnoop

[Steve Hodge]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Steve V <olivuts at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Newbie to linux here, please be gentle.
>
> I read about epgsnoop and downloaded the package from nice.net.nz.
>
> I then took the following steps:
> 1. tarred the package into a directory /usr/epgsnoop
> 2. I did 'python setup.py install'
>
> I think the above went OK - the output to the screen looked OK.
>
> The instructions then say "Copy one of the channels.conf files and
> epgsnoop.sqlite to
> ~/.epgsnoop/ (or your preferred config location, that is the
> default)."
>
> 3. So I copied channels.conf.freeview files and epgsnoop.sqlite to
> /etc/mythtv
>

It needs to be copied to ~/.epgsnoop. I.e. /home/<whatever user your running
it as>/.epgsnoop/channels.conf.


> I then expected I would go into Mythtv backend setup and add a new video
> source where I could select epgsnoop. However epgsnoop is not one of the
> available XML grabbers.
>

Epgsnoop doesn't work that way. I think that it's possible to work that way
with xmltvnz (I think that's the name). But epgsnoop itself runs
independently of MythTV. You can either run it totally separately (e.g. via
cron) or use MythTV''s "run mythfilldatabase" setup screen to run it.

Cheers,
Steve
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