[mythtvnz] tv_grab_nz-py configuration issues

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Andrew Taylor <aretaylor at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Steve
>>
>> I gave it a go... but no luck...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "./tv_grab_nz-py", line 227, in <module>
>>     use = raw_input('Use channel %s (%s)? [y/N]' % (channel[1], channel[0]))
>> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0101' in
>> position 13: ordinal not in range(128)
>
>
> Top posting not allowed.
>
> Just write your config file by hand if you need to. Format is
> plaintext with each line like this:
>
> channel=tv1.freeviewnz.tv
>
> for the channels you want. It's name should be
>
> ~USER/.mythtv/FreeviewHD.xmltv
>
> where USER is the user which runs mythbackend.

Oh and FreeviewHD is the name of your video source (in mythtv-setup)


>
> You can get a list of valid channels by downloading the xmltv file and
> searching it
>
> wget http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz
> zgrep "<channel id=" freeview.xml.gz
>
> Clunky but effective.
>
> Author of tv_nz_grab-py - help??
>
>
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> A.
>>
>>
>> On 18 December 2013 13:46, Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 11:28 +1300, Andrew Taylor wrote:
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Apologies if this has been answered before, I had a search through the
>>> > archive but couldn't find a working answer.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I downloaded the latest tv_grab_nz-py from nice.net.nz and made the
>>> > adjustments mentioned by stephen in this thread:
>>> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/559187
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > From:
>>> > doc = ElementTree.parse(StringIO(text)).getroot()
>>> > ----
>>> > To:
>>> > parser = ElementTree.XMLParser(encoding="ISO-8859-1")
>>> > doc = ElementTree.parse(StringIO(text), parser=parser).getroot()
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > But it still dies in the configuration for me when it gets to Marori
>>> > TV with the unicodeEncodeError .
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Is there anything else I am missing?
>>> > Running Ubuntu 12.04LTS Server (fresh install) with tvheadend and xbmc
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Cheers
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Andrew
>>> >
>>> I have no idea if this is relevant or not, but ISO-8859-1 usually means
>>> the old windows-1252 character set, which probably doesn't support Maori
>>> specific characters. Does UTF-8 encoding work any better??
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> --
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