[mythtvnz] epg and mythfilldatabase updating

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Roger Searle <roger.searle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have managed to get the EPG to populate mythtv.  Eventually.  And I'm
> somewhat unclear as to whether I have it configured to automatically
> update mythfilldatabase.  These are the steps I took to get this far:
>
> I have tv_grab_nz-py in my /.home/roger/.mythtv folder, and copied to
> /usr/local/bin, it is executable.
>
> I've run tv_grab_nz-py --configure and have a
> /home/roger/.xmltv/tv_grab_nz-py.conf file.
>
> I downloaded the freeview.xml file from nzepg.org then ran
> "mythfilldatabase --file 1 freeview.xml --update".  I continued to have
> "unknown" in the mythtv program listings until I used mythweb to add
> xmltvid data for each channel.
>
> Now I have EPG populated, I turn to it's automated updating and see the
> default backend settings for mythfilldatabase as follows:
> Automatically run mythfilldatabase (tick)
> Mythfilldatabase program: /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
> Run mythfilldatabase at time suggested by the grabber (tick)
> Arguments blank
> Run frequency (days) 1
>
> I suspect I need some arguments passed in order to involve tv_grab_nz-py
> but don't see if/how/where I may need to do this.  Could someone offer
> guidance on what I may need to do?

in the backend setup|video source setup, the listings grabber should
be set to New Zealand (py) (xmltv) - at least it is on mine.