[mythtvnz] Help-can't get grabber and mythfilldatabase to work right
Paulgir
paulgir at gmail.com
Sun Apr 28 00:24:39 BST 2013
>>
>> You can try running the EPG update manually. Run a terminal and login
>> as the user that runs mythfrontend. Download the EPG file with wget
>> and uncompress it with gzip -d. Then run:
>>
>> mythfilldatabase --help
>>
>> to see all the options for running it. I think this is what is
>> needed:
>>
>> mythfilldatabase --update --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile <path to the
>> xml file>
>>
>> It is a while and two MythTV versions since I last had to do this, so
>> the options have changed a bit. If your sourceid is not 1, change
>> that to the correct value. When run like that, I think the log will
>> go to the terminal, so you might want to add:
>>
>> 2>&1 >mythfilldatabase.log
>>
>> and possibly:
>>
>> --loglevel debug
>>
>> Does that work? Are there any errors?
>>
> That works! no errors that I can see and 8 days of data in the
> schedule.System info page tags the update as successful.
> -Paul
So what is different between the grabber getting the data and me doing it
manually?
In what folder does the grabber create the EPG file?
I don't appear to get any file not found errors in the mythfilldatabase
terminal output.
-Paul
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