[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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