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

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Tim Westbrook <iondiode at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)?
>


Then look at it with zless freeview.xml.gz


>
> 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
>
>
We've been there and done that.
Also I think it needs to be set up for the mythtv user, so make sure you
make a symlink to ~mythtv/.mythtv/(yourvideosiurcename).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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