[mythtvnz] Problem with mythfilldatabase

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:43:04 +1200, you wrote:

>Hi all
>
>I have been having trouble with schedule updates over the last week.I use  
>a script run by cron to update with freeview.xml
>data.I decided to try to get tv_grab_nz-py to work.This was unsuccessful  
>(again).
>In the process I deleted and recreated my video sources and  
>rescanned.Re-entered xmltv id for each channel in the channel editor.
>
>The problem is: when I run mythfilldatabase I get:
>
>  2016-06-05 12:29:16.181688 N  Unknown xmltv channel identifier:  
>tv2.freeviewnz.tv - Skipping channel.
>
>messages for every channel.
>
>I think I may have missed a step in the process but I can find what.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>_Paul

Youn need to have a .xmltv config file in /home/<mythtv user>/.mythtv
for each source.  So for my FreeviewHD source, I have this file:

root at mypvr:/home/stephen/.mythtv# cat FreeviewHD.xmltv
channel=tv1.freeviewnz.tv
channel=tv2.freeviewnz.tv
channel=tv3.freeviewnz.tv
channel=four.freeviewnz.tv
channel=maori-tv.freeviewnz.tv
channel=tv1-plus1.freeviewnz.tv
channel=tv2-plus1.freeviewnz.tv
channel=tv3-plus1.freeviewnz.tv
channel=four-plus1.freeviewnz.tv
channel=duke.freeviewnz.tv
channel=edge-tv.freeviewnz.tv
channel=prime.freeviewnz.tv
channel=choice.freeviewnz.tv
channel=shopping-channel.freeviewnz.tv
channel=parliament.freeviewnz.tv
channel!hope-channel.freeviewnz.tv
channel=aljazeera.freeviewnz.tv
channel=te-reo.freeviewnz.tv
channel!shine.freeviewnz.tv
channel=firstlight.freeviewnz.tv
channel=sommet-sports.freeviewnz.tv
channel=tvsn-shopping-channel.freeviewnz.tv
channel=chinese-tv8.freeviewnz.tv
channel=tv33.freeviewnz.tv
channel=yes-shop.freeviewnz.tv
channel=apna.freeviewnz.tv
channel=rnz-national.freeviewnz.tv
channel=rnz-concert.freeviewnz.tv
channel=basefm.freeviewnz.tv
channel!georgefm.freeviewnz.tv
channel!tvnz7.freeviewnz.tv
channel!tv9.freeviewnz.tv

The = sign says to include the EPG data for that channel, and the ! to
exclude it.