[mythtvnz] Epgsnoop how to use mythfilldatabase to load the listings.xml data

[Joel Wiramu Pauling]

Thanks Steve, yes I am not using any intermediary parsers for the data,
simply using EIT only setup in myth then importing the freeview listing data
directly every night from the cron entry.

the -O - bit on the end wget simply says dump output to stdout and that gets
piped to gunzip then to mythfilldatabase.

I have had nothing but trouble with the various dvbgrab and xmltv scripts
for my purposes and don't really see a need for them.

On 10 July 2010 18:49, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, tim Lockyer <drtimlockyer at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks a lot for all your help. I am making good progress. Have two more
>> questions. I know how to use crontab but do not understand the
>> http://your.epg.source.gz
>>
>>  First:
>>
>>  After you have it working you can add a crontab entry like so:
>>
>> wget http://your.epg.source.gz -O - |gunzip|mythfilldatabase -file 1
>>
>
> In your case you wouldn't do that, you'd call epgsnoop to get the data
> rather than wget. Probably best to write a script that does all the grabbing
> and loading of the data and call that either from crontab or have myth
> itself call it periodically (it can be setup in in mythtv-setup IIRC). My
> script looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
> rm -f /home/mythtv/listings-*.xml
> rm -f /home/mythtv/listings_freeview-*.xml
> dvbstream -s 22500 -o:/dev/null -f 1371 -p h -n 60 8192 &
> /home/mythtv/tv_grab_dvb -s --skynz-ratings
> --category-map=/home/mythtv/categories_skynz -o 12 >
> /home/mythtv/listings-$$.xml
> mythfilldatabase --update --file 1 /home/mythtv/listings-$$.xml
> mythfilldatabase --update --file 2 /home/mythtv/listings-$$.xml
> killall dvbstream
> sleep 5
> dvbstream -s 22500 -o:/dev/null -f 1183 -p h -n 60 8192 &
> /home/mythtv/tv_grab_dvb -s --category-map=/home/mythtv/categories_freeview
> -o 12 > /home/mythtv/listings_freeview-$$.xml
> mythfilldatabase --update --file 2 /home/mythtv/listings_freeview-$$.xml
> killall dvbstream
>
> dvbstream tunes the DVB-S adapter and starts streaming data from it to
> /dev/null. tv_grab_dvb monitors the packets from the adapter and extracts
> the EIT data to a file. The --update argument to mythtfilldatabase stops it
> from messing with the channel setup (I prefer to do that stuff manually).
> I'm not using epgsnoop - you'd want to replace the tv_grab_dvb line with the
> appropriate call to epgsnoop (and possibly that would also take care of the
> tuning, I'm not sure). What I do is grab the Sky listings and apply them to
> both Sky and Freeview sources as this ensures I have identical data for the
> common channels. I then grab the Freeview listings and apply those to get
> data for the Freeview-only channels.
>
> If you search the archives you might find a similar script written for
> epgsnoop.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
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