[mythtvnz] epg help new box

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:20:50 +1300, you wrote:

>
>Hi Guys
>I need some help please, my linux knowledge and all my myth knowledge is 
>google based and lurking on this forum for years.
>  I have a dual core 2.6 running box 4 gig of ram
>  nova 550t tuner and gt 220 vid card
>  new drive are 120g solid state and I have a 2 t wd black.
>  I have not configured the wd on to the system yet and that will be 
>another challenge
>  I have been meaning to upgrade my box for a while. It was running 
>version 0.24
>And now I need to as it has died
>I had a partially installed version of Ubuntu 12 on the 120g
>So I upgraded to 14.04
>Did channel scan and have channels work and had a 2 hr epg as it was 
>looking at EIT data
>  Changed it from a localhost to its ip on the network and upgraded  the 
>other front end.
>  And then copied the script I have attached below and I am stuck on why 
>this does not work,
>  Also now I am not getting any epg data now
>
>
>
>
>#! /bin/bash
>wget http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz
>gunzip freeview.xml.gz
>mythfilldatabase --file 1 freeview.xml --manual
>
>  I realize the has to be changed to --update once I have run this once 
>and I may have to remove the freeview file
>
>
>Terminal readout as follows
>stugo at stugo-G33M-DS2R:~$ #! /bin/bash
>stugo at stugo-G33M-DS2R:~$ wget http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz
>--2015-02-06 18:29:10-- http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz
>Resolving epg.org.nz <http://epg.org.nz> (epg.org.nz 
><http://epg.org.nz>)... 120.138.17.20
>Connecting to epg.org.nz <http://epg.org.nz> (epg.org.nz 
><http://epg.org.nz>)|120.138.17.20|:80... connected.
>HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>Length: 198456 (194K) [application/octet-stream]
>Saving to: ‘freeview.xml.gz’
>
>100%[======================================>] 198,456     1.25MB/s   in 
>0.2s
>
>2015-02-06 18:29:10 (1.25 MB/s) - ‘freeview.xml.gz’ saved [198456/198456]
>
>stugo at stugo-G33M-DS2R:~$ gunzip freeview.xml.gz
>stugo at stugo-G33M-DS2R:~$ mythfilldatabase --file 1 freeview.xml --manual
>Boolean type options do not accept values:
>     --file
>Received '1' but unassociated arguments have not been enabled
>mythfilldatabase version: fixes/0.27 [v0.27.4-30-g3b43903] 
>www.mythtv.org <http://www.mythtv.org>
>Misc. Options:
>--dd-file                       Bypass grabber, and read SD data from file
>   --lineupid                      DataDirect lineup of input xml file
>   --offset                        Day offset of input xml file
>   --xmlfile                       XML file to import manually
>--dd-grab-all                   refresh full data using DataDirect
>--file                          Bypass grabbers and define sourceid and file
>   --xmlfile                       XML file to import manually
>--manual                        Run interactive configuration
>--no-mark-repeats               do not mark repeats
>--preset                        Use channel preset values instead of numbers
>-h OR --help OR --usage         Display this help printout, or give detailed
>                                 information of selected option.
>--version                       Display version information.
>--sourceid                      Operate on single source
>
>Channel List Handling Options:
>--do-channel-updates            update channels using datadirect
>--do-not-filter-new-channels    don't filter ATSC channels for addition
>--only-update-channels          only update channel lineup
>--remove-new-channels           disable new channels on datadirect web 
>interface
>
>Filtering Options:
>--dont-refresh-tba              don't refresh "To be announced" programs
>--max-days                      force number of days to update
>--refresh                       Provide a day or range of days to 
>refresh. Can
>                                 be used repeatedly.
>
>Logging Options:
>--enable-dblog                  Enable logging to database.
>--loglevel                      Set the logging level. All log messages at
>                                 lower levels will be discarded.
>                                 In descending order: emerg, alert, 
>crit, err,
>                                 warning, notice, info, debug
>                                 defaults to info
>--logpath                       Writes logging messages to a file in the
>                                 directory logpath with filenames in the 
>format:
>applicationName.date.pid.log.
>                                 This is typically used in combination with
>                                 --daemon, and if used in combination with
>                                 --pidfile, this can be used with log 
>rotators,
>                                 using the HUP call to inform MythTV to 
>reload
>                                 the file
>--nologserver                   Disable all logging but console.
>-q OR --quiet                   Don't log to the console (-q).  Don't log
>                                 anywhere (-q -q)
>--syslog                        Set the syslog logging facility.
>                                 Set to "none" to disable, defaults to none.
>-v OR --verbose                 Specify log filtering. Use '-v help' for 
>level
>                                 info.
>
>Guide Data Handling Options:
>--only-update-guide             Only update guide data
>
>Have i got the script wrong, as I can see I am getting the file and 
>unzipping it, but it is not allowing me to set it to myth database I 
>have set all the backend channel Id to the scanned channels
>
>
>
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You have the mythfilldatabase command options wrong.  The builtin help
does not make the correct syntax at all clear.  I believe this is what
you need now:

  mythfilldatabase --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile freeview.xml --manual

See:

  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythfilldatabase