[mythtvnz] Schedules Direct trial for NZ

[Curtis Walker]

On 31 August 2016 at 21:45, Stephen Worthington
<stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:00:07 +1200, you wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:53:03 +1200, you wrote:
>>
>>>I'm not a developer, and I've got schedules direct up and running on my
>>>Ubuntu 16.04 system.
>>[snip]
>>>*2. Install xmltv 0.5.68-1 from Debian Sid* from here
>>>https://packages.debian.org/sid/xmltv . There are 4 .deb packages you need:
>>>xmltv, libxmltv-perl, xmltv-gui, xmltv-util.
>>
>>If you have turned on the option for xmltv updates Mythbuntu Control
>>Centre, you should already have at least xmltv 0.5.67-1 (which is what
>>I have in 14.04) which has the json grabbers.  In that case, is there
>>a reason to want 0.5.68-1?
>
> I have just downloaded and built copies of the latest release and
> nightly versions of xmltv on my test PC (Mythbuntu 16.04, MythTV
> 0.28-fixes).  I did a diff between tv_grab_sd_json in the release
> version and the installed 0.5.67-1 version in 16.04 xmltv-fixes. There
> are quite a few changes, so it looks like you should download and
> install the latest release version, or even the current snapshot
> (nightly build) version which is different again.
>
> I am using this page as a guide as to how to set things up:
>
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Migrating_to_Schedules_Direct_in_the_UK
>
> This is from the nightly build version, which I am trying out:
>
> root at lith:~# tv_grab_sd_json --version
> XMLTV module version 0.5.68
> This is tv_grab_sd_json version 1.21, 2016/07/15 01:26:44
>
> After configuring to use the Wellington transmitter lineup (because it
> is normally identical to the Wharite lineup), I did a test run and got
> a .xml file.  So far, I have noticed a couple of things that I
> probably should tell SD about:
>
> 1) The new HGTV channel is missing.
> 2) The old names are being used for RNZ National and RNZ Concert (the
> xml file has them as Radio NZ National and Radio NZ Concert.
>
> There seems to be a lot more detail available about programmes, such
> as cast lists.  Every programme I have checked has a dd_progid format
> episode-num field, and some programmes also have other formats of
> episode-num as well.  That is excellent - it will prevent re-recording
> of repeats.  However, the episode-num data does not match the data in
> the EPG collected from the MHEG5 EPG on the channels themselves.  So
> it will not match old recordings in my database.
>
> The next step is to get tv_grab_sd_json to set up my channels in
> MythTV on the test PC.  But that will have to wait until I have some
> more spare time.
>
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Thanks to Rory for your helpful enabler/guide!

You're near Wharite too, eh Steven?

After quite some stuffing around updating all of my broken perl
scripts, then installing the latest xmltv, then adding extra perl
modules to get tv_grab_sd_json working, it all went pretty straight
forward.

I've gone with the "National" lineup for now, which does include HGTV,
but not TV33. It's really nice to have Te Reo channel data, and I
agree with Steven that the overall data looks pretty comprehensive. I
can't speak to how well it'll play with my old recordings, but that's
not a major consideration in our set up.

If the trial works out, I'm gonna plunk down the $25USD for sure.