[mythtvnz] How do you make mythtv-setup 'see' tv_grab_nz-py.py?

[James Gray]

IIRC it's a hardcoded list. I had a patch once upon a time, for an
outdated version, but it's generally easier to symlink something that
is in there (eg tv_grab_au) and select that

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Richard Clarke <richard at clarke.biz> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm a relative newcomer to MythTV, having run GBPVR on Windows boxes for
> several years as my main HTPC environment. However I've gradually been
> moving away from Windows based PC's to Linux for the past few years and the
> last pieces of my home system to make the jump are my HTPC's, spurred on by
> the desire to fully incorporate HD Freeview into my HTPC environment.
>
>  I'm currently in the process of trying to set up my Master backend on my
> server which is Mythbuntu 10.04 based. I'm struggling with the set up of the
> tv_grab_nz-py.py epg grabber, or rather making mythtv-setup 'see' the
> grabber. I would ideally like mythfilldatabase do the running of the script
> automatically (I believe this is possible) rather than running the script
> 'manually' and then having mythfilldatabase suck in the resulting xmltv
> listings file (though that's my back up plan if I can't get mythtv-setup to
> see the grabber itself).
>
> I've tried locating the tv_grab_nz-py.py in the /usr/bin directory where all
> the other 'out of the box' Perl based grabbers reside, and making it
> executable (chmod 755), however mythtv-setup (Video Sources) still couldn't
> see the grabber. I've tried renaming the script to follow the convention of
> the existing grabbers, i.e renamed to 'tv_grab_nz', both with and without
> the '.py' extension, again with no success. I guess I'm missing something
> simple here somewhere but so far I haven't discovered what. Can anyone help?
> Is the key to making mythtv-setup see the NZ grabber related to it's
> location in the file system (where should it reside?) or is there something
> else required?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
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