[mythtvnz] No EPG, what am i doing wrong

[Mike Brady]

"Curtis Walker" sultanoswing at gmail.com – 8 April 2022 10:59 AM
> Good to see activity for the NZ MythTV group after such a long time.
>
> Having somewhat resurrected my MythTV box after not using it for a
> while (now updated to v.32/fixes, under Arch linux), I'm having
> trouble with EPG data like others. Trouble is, it's been so many years
> since I first set all this up, I've forgotten where all of the config
> files and scripts are!
>
> So far, I've started fresh, deleting my old channels, and doing a full
> re-scan, which found all the new channels, such as Eden. I can watch
> Live TV fine. They've all got xmltv ID's (http://tv1.freeviewnz.tv etc).
>
> Downloading from http://epg.org.nz and using it with mythfilldatabase, I have
> 7 days programme guide data for Māori TV, PRIME, Duke on 12, Eden+1,
> Te Reo and all the 'minor' channels (18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 31, 33, RNZ).
>
> However, there is no data for TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, TV 3, Bravo, Duke on
> channel 6, TV2+1, Eden, Bravo plus 1, TV1+1, Three+1 or Rush.
>
> I've fiddled with EIT and tv_grab_nz-py stuff as well, but no data.
>
> My old shell script to update the database doesn't work either:
> #! /bin/bash
> wget http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz
> gunzip freeview.xml.gz
> mythfilldatabase --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile freeview.xml
> rm freeview.xml
> exit
>
> I'm sure this is some config error. Eventually got http://mhegepgsnoop.py
> (0.71) running (after realising I needed a tuner open and running),
> but the resultant xml file is empty.
>
> Confused!
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 at 08:19, Robert Fisher <robert at fisher.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> > I am happy to try this Stephen but I wonder if you could help by posting
> > instructions "for dummies".
> >
> > (I am very good at following good instructions)
> >
> > On 8/04/22 00:41, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> > > I have put a new version of mhegepgsnoop on my web server:
> > >
> > > http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/mhegepgsnoop-0.7.2.py
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
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I have just looked at the file http://epg.org.nz/freeview.xml.gz and it contains data for tvnz1, tvnz2, etc.

So it looks to me like the issue is with loading it into mythtv. What is the output from the mythfilldatabase command?