[mythtvnz] Help-can't get grabber and mythfilldatabase to work right

[Tim Westbrook]

That four hours might be EIT data? mythtv-setup->Video Sources->(my
video source)->Perform EIT Scan ( should be unchecked)

Could it be a networking issue?

Does "wget http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz" work (when run from your
mythtv box - the box running the backend)?

If my network is down, I get the same errors you see in the mythfilldatabase log

I also had an issue where if I ran configure from mythtv-setup->Video
Sources->(myvideo source)->Configure, it failed. I had to run


tv_grab_nz-py --configure --config-file=~/.mythtv/(myvideosource).xmltv

Manually

Note myvideosource much match the name in your mythtv-setup. mine is hd0



On 22 April 2013 06:38, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I initially created my /home/stephen/.mythtv/FreeviewHD.xmltv file
>> using the grabber, but I have maintained it manually ever since.  This
>> is what it now looks like (channels for Wharite transmitter):
>>
>> channel=tv1.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=tv2.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=u.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel!tvnz7.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=tv1-plus1.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=prime.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=trackside.sky.co.nz
>> channel=choice.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=parliament.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=ctv8.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=tvcentral.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=rnz-national.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=rnz-concert.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel=base-fm.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel!tv33.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel!cue.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel!te-reo.freeviewnz.tv
>> channel!george-fm.freeviewnz.tv
>>
>> Each channel line specifies an xmltvid value that is to be processed
>> for that source.  If there is a = sign, the EPG data is processed for
>> the channel with that xmltvid.  If there is a ! instead, or the
>> xmltvid is missing or does not match, the EPG data for the channel
>> with that xmltvid is ignored.
>>
>> The valid xmltvid values can be found at the front of the downloaded
>> EPG xml file in the <channel id> lines.  These are derived from the
>> epgsnoop program or mhegepgsnoop.py program that generates the EPG
>> files - they have configuration that they use to specify the xmltvid
>> values for each channel.  For epgsnoop, that is a channel.conf file
>> that is manually configured.  For mhegepgsnoop.py, it reads the
>> information out of the channel table in the mythconverg database,
>> matching the channel names with the names in the mheg5 data, or it can
>> also have a manual configuration file.
>>
>> The downloaded EPG file (freeview.xml.gz) has a small anomaly in that
>> it still lists tvnz7.freeview.tv as a valid xmltvid, even though the
>> channel is long gone now.  There is, of course, no data for that
>> channel in the file.
>>
>> I have another SkyNZ.xmltv file for my Sky source.  I am just updating
>> my Sky setup, so I have not posted it as it is a bit out of date.
>>
> Thanks Stephen.
> I ran the grabber script on my desktop and took the ids from it's output.
> Unfortunately I am no closer to finding out why my scheduler is not
> gathering data.
> The weird thing is at some stage in my attempts to get it to work,it
> received 8 days of mostly blank data.
> Only about 4 hours of that data was programmes.
>
> Paul
>
>
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