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

[Brett Miller]

Richard

Definitely get the original linux script (hads).
Then you can modify the line which selects which "file.xml" to grap as 
per your needs.

Check you have python environment working . Maybe run the myth mysql 
database backup script (.mythtv/scripts) to check.

Should be able to run
1.  "tv_grab_nz-py  --configure"
(no command prefix needed & no .py suffix)

Download the freeview .xml or other .xml epg file & then try:
2.  mythfilldatabase --file 1 freeview.xml --update
observe the stdout

then try (long tedious)
3.  mythfilldatabase --manual

  Then run
4. mythfilldatabase
observe the stdout as it does the download & db update etc

Brett


On 21/05/2010 8:16 a.m., Richard Clarke wrote:
> Thanks for your responses so far to my query. I have just run 
> tv_find_grabbers from the command line and it still doesn't find the 
> tv_grab_nz script. It did find all the 'out of the box' scripts that 
> come with Mythbuntu. I then ran tv_validate_grabber and it came back 
> with the following info concerning the tv_grab_nz script.
>
> richard at hda2:/usr/bin$ tv_validate_grabber tv_grab_nz
> Can't exec "tv_grab_nz": No such file or directory at 
> /usr/share/perl5/XMLTV/ValidateGrabber.pm line 397.
> Failed to execute tv_grab_nz --configure --config-file 
> /tmp/wVyHnSd1ED/conf: No such file or directory
> Error returned from grabber during configure.
> Grabber with --version failed: 32512, Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Grabber with --description failed: 32512, Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Grabber with --capabilities failed: 32512,
> Use of uninitialized value $cap in split at 
> /usr/share/perl5/XMLTV/ValidateGrabber.pm line 212.
> The grabber does not claim to support the 'baseline' capability.
> The grabber does not claim to support the 'manualconfig' capability.
> Configuration file /tmp/wVyHnSd1ED/conf does not exist. Aborting.
> Grabber did not validate ok. See /tmp/wVyHnSd1ED/t_commands.log for a 
> list of the commands that were used
> 6 errors found.
>
> Basically I think the script I'm using is failing at the validate 
> phase so mythtv-setup ignores it. I tried running the script from the 
> commandline without prefixing with python, i.e ./tv_grab_nz to see if 
> the Python environment was OK. It came back with an error like "Bad 
> Interpreter: /usr/bin/python^M"
>
> After I had shut the PC down for the night it occurred to me that the 
> "^M" at the end of that error message might indicate an end of line 
> problem. The script I'm using has been copied from my Windows GBPVR 
> machine and I have opened it in an editor on that platform in the 
> past. I'll try again with a virgin copy of Hadley's script and see if 
> it can pass the validation check.
>
> Feel free to offer any further suggestions that occur to you, and 
> thanks for your help.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>
>
> On 20 May 2010 11:05, Hadley Rich <hads at nice.net.nz 
> <mailto:hads at nice.net.nz>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:51 +1200, Richard Clarke wrote:
>     >  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).
>
>     Welcome.
>
>     MythTV uses tv_find_grabbers to find the grabbers, it's easier to test
>     with that from the CLI than open mythtv-setup all the time.
>
>     I think all you need is xmltv installed and tv_gran_nz-py in your
>     (mythtv's) path and it should work. Anything named tv_grab* is fine
>     IIRC.
>
>     hads
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