[mythtvnz] No EPG, what am i doing wrong

[Mike Brady]

"Stephen Worthington" stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz – 8 April 2022 1:02 AM
> On Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:39:48 +0000, you wrote:
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> >"Stephen Worthington" stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz 7 April 2022 9:02 PM
> >> On Thu, 07 Apr 2022 06:05:32 +0000, you wrote:
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> >> >I am not in Christchurch, but I have a script that uses hdhomerun_config, mhegepgsnoop and mythfilldatabase that has been reliably producing my EPG from MHEG5 data obtained using HDHomeRuns for years. mhegepgsnoop does need a few minor fixes.
> >> >
> >> >I can email you my script and the fixed mhegepgsnoop if you want to give that a go.
> >>
> >> Could you please send me a copy of your mhepgsnoop also - then I can
> >> merge your changes into my Python 3 version.
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> >I have attached full copy of mhegepgsnoop with the changes, a patch and my script.
> >
> >There are only four pretty minor changes to mhegepgsnoop. These same changes have been successfully made to earlier versions of mhegepgsnoop as well.
> >
> >My script could definitely do with some tidying up, but it works for me. There are a number of variables in my script that will likely need changing for others to use it, but hopefully it is reasonably self explanatory.
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> I have put a new version of mhegepgsnoop on my web server:
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> http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mhegepgsnoop-0.7.2.py
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> This has a new option "--hdhr" which makes it compatible with Mike's
> script for capturing a .ts file from an HDHomerun tuner and then
> getting mhegepgsnoop to read from that file using dvbsnoop.
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> As I do not have an HDHomerun tuner, this will need testing by someone
> who does - please let me know the results. I have tested it with the
> -s option to use dvbsnoop on my DVB-T tuners, and it still works
> properly like that.
>
>
No Promises, but I should have some time in the weekend to try it out.

It has been a long time since I put all this together. I am having "fun" trying to remember why I did some of the things in my script. I am very puzzled as to why the check for the dvbsnoop binary is commented out. dvbsnoop is needed and is present on my system, so ...?

I obviously got a bit lazy towards the end as well as there a few things that are hard coded (like the length of the capture file) that should really be variables.