[mythtvnz] Local help in Dunedin?

[DB]

Thanks everybody problem now solved. As per Brett Davidson post, I just 
copied  tv_grab_nz-py.conf to Freeview.xmltv and now all working.

Cheers Doug.

On 5/04/2011 2:40 p.m., Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:08:36 +1200, you wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> David Lowe has been giving me some help by email which has been grate.
>> Getting closer at finding what the problem is. Seems to be something
>> with the grabber not updating the file located in
>> /Home/(yourname)/.mythtv/Freeview.xmltv
>> I don't understand if this file is made by tv_grab_nz-py, and updated
>> with the xmltv data from the grabber. I need to confirm this first, if
>> the grabber is downloading the data, and where it's data is stored.
>> Can anybody explain to me where the grabber data goes?
>> If I run tv_grab_nz-py from a terminal, the screen scrolls with xml data
>> which look like what I would expect to be in the Freeview.xmltv file.
>>
>> Cheers Doug.
> The /home/(yourname)/.mythtv/*.xmltv files are configuration files,
> not where the downloaded EPG data is stored.  There should be one for
> each EPG "source" you are using.  I have two, one for FreeviewHD and
> one for SkyTV (I have a Sky decoder attached to an S-VHS input on my
> PVR-500 analogue tuner card).  Here is mine for my FreeviewHD source
> (FreeviewHD.xmltv):
>
> channel=tv1.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=tv2.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=u.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=tvnz7.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=tv3.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=tv3-plus1.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=four.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=c4.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=maori-tv.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=parliament.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=prime.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=ctv8.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=tv33.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=tvcentral.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=trackside.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=rnz-national.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=rnz-concert.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=base-fm.freeviewnz.tv
> channel=stratos.freeviewnz.tv
> channel!cue.freeviewnz.tv
> channel!te-reo.freeviewnz.tv
> channel!george-fm.freeviewnz.tv
>
> There is one "channel" line per channel in the EPG data.  Channels
> that are used in your MythTV setup have an = and unused channels a !
> separating the "channel" keyword from the xmltvid value on the right.
> I do not believe it matters if you have any ! lines with invalid
> xmltvid values, or if you have any xmltvid values in the EPG data that
> are not in the .xmltv config file - any EPG data that does not match
> an = line is just ignored, so the ! lines are just a convenience for
> us humans.
>
> It is a very long time now since I installed tv_grab_nz-py, but I
> believe it has an install mode where it will set up the config file
> for you.  It is a tedious process where you have to answer a set of
> questions about each channel.  I maintain my config files manually so
> I have not run the install mode for many years and probably never in
> the current version of tv_grab_nz-py.  The option to do this if
> running tv_grab_nz-py manually is --configure.
>
> When you are setting up MythTV to use a grabber, it should run the
> grabber using the --configure option and use the data to also set up
> the "channels" database in MythTV.  Last time I did that procedure,
> the software was a bit broken and it did not work.  I presume that
> will have long since been fixed.  The tv_grab_nz-py file needs to be
> put on the path somewhere it will be recognised as being a grabber -
> the proper place seems to be in /usr/local/bin - and then when you are
> setting things up using mythtv-setup, it will appear as a grabber
> option when creating a new Video Source (menu item 3).  Using the
> "configure" option on the new page that appears for a video source
> should run the grabber with the --configure option.
>
> I also maintain my MythTV channel database manually using direct SQL
> commands when channel changes occur, so I have no idea any more how
> the updating of channels would work using tv_grab_nz-py, or even if
> there is a way to do it without having to go through the entire
> tedious initial install process again.  If I was installing a new
> MythTV setup for someone, I would probably just dump a copy of my
> existing "channels" database and load it on their system and then
> modify it to suit.
>
> I am in Palmerston North, and the channels above are for what I get
> for DVB-T from the Wharite transmitter.  There are probably some
> regional variations eg tvcentral is not universally available.  In PN,
> the tvcentral channel seems to be present on the transmitter, but does
> not actually transmit programs, so I should probably disable it too.
>
> If anyone sees any problems with my data above, do please let me know.
>
> The normal way the EPG grabbing works is that there is an option in
> the MythTV setup somewhere that runs mythfilldatabase automatically.
> Mytfilldatabase then runs the grabbers that are configured for it, and
> receives and processes the EPG xml data that the grabber generates. It
> puts all the EPG data directly into the MythTV database - the EPG data
> may never be stored to disk in a file and if it is, that file is only
> a temporary one.
>
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