[mythtvnz] Issue with tv_grabnz-py. Have workaround but not resolved.

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Brett Davidson <brett at davidson.gen.nz> wrote:
> G'day.
>
> Installed MythTV via Mythbuntu 10.10.
> All good. (I can watch TV that is, if I configure the input channels manually within myth-backend).
>
> Downloaded the tv_grab_nz-py file, made it executable and tried to create a new input source using this.
>
> Video source name: Freeview
> Listings grabber: New Zealand (py) (xmltv)
>
> On main mythtv backend screen when running configure I get :
> Initialising cookies: ######################################
> Getting list of channels from DSTVB site:no channels could be found a
> *** Exited with status: 255 ***
>
> On Terminal that started mythtv backend get:
> 2011-04-05 15:06:04.454 XMLTVFindGrabbers: Running tv_find_grabbers baseline
> 2011-04-05 15:06:09.991 XMLTVFindGrabbers: Finished running tv_find_grabbers
>
> If I scan for channels manually within each "Input Connection" -> "Fetch channels from listing source" then nothing happens.
>
> If I scan for channels manually within each "Input Connection" -> "Scan channels" then get working TV channels! Yaay!
>
> Problem is that this is not getting the grabber working.
>
> If I run grabber from command line with no options then I get what appears to be valid xml of the channel listings.
>
> A correct listings file is created in ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_nz-py.conf so is mythtv config not specifiying the .mythtv path?
>
> Copying this file to ~/.mythtv/Freeview.xmltv makes everything work. (Well mythfilldatabase asks me some good questions anyway).
>
> Is everything going to be OK from now on or is there anything I can/should run to ensure I have the system setup correctly?

You need to ensure that each channel has an xmltv-id associated with
it. do this in mythweb. I posted how to get to the right page in
another thread on this list earlier today.