[mythtvnz] need help installing epgsnoop

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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 gets the data from the satellite in a form that can then be
> digested by MythTV - it doesn't actually do anything with it other than
> stash it away somewhere!
>
> On my system, I run epgsnoop to grab the scheduling data and put it into a
> directory that my web server can access. The MythTV grabber for New
> Zealand is called tv_grab_nz-py and that is the thing you select in
> mythtv-setup.
>
> This grabber would normally get its data from the net but if you have
> epgsnoop running successfully then you can just change the URL in the
> script and get it from your own web server (at least, thats what I do!!).
>
> I run epgsnoop from within a script called by the cron.daily job stuff.
> The script is mostly down to Hads (who wrote epgsnoop) but since I haven't
> seen it on any website, here it is :) Its a bit complex because I get both
> Sky and Freeview data and pick the best from each by having a seperate
> config-dir for one of them so I can capture data for different channels


why not simply run mythfilldatabase at the end of your script?