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

[Tim Westbrook]

On 22 April 2013 11:19, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Tim Westbrook <iondiode at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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)?
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> Then look at it with zless freeview.xml.gz
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>> If my network is down, I get the same errors you see in the
>> mythfilldatabase log
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>> I also had an issue where if I ran configure from mythtv-setup->Video
>> Sources->(myvideo source)->Configure, it failed. I had to run
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>> tv_grab_nz-py --configure --config-file=~/.mythtv/(myvideosource).xmltv
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> 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
>

Hmm, I'm running mythbuntu and I have no real user ( that is a user
with a home directory) named mythtv. But maybe you know more about
Pauls system, on mine I see this in the log

2013-04-22 08:01:21.135187 I  Grabber prefers method: allatonce
2013-04-22 08:01:21.135953 I  XMLTV config file is:
/home/iondiode/.mythtv/hd0.xmltv

where iondiode is the only real user on the box, I'm not sure on how
mythtv figured that out though.


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>> Manually
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>> Note myvideosource much match the name in your mythtv-setup. mine is hd0
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>> On 22 April 2013 06:38, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >>
>> >> 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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