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

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Tim Westbrook <iondiode at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22 April 2013 11:19, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> 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.
>

If that';s not a real user I don't know what is!

When you install mythbuntu you create a user in the installation process.
That user runs mythfrontend. The mythtv user runs mythbackend.


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