[mythtv] Status of Schedules Direct SD-JSON grabbers

Peter Bennett pgbennett at comcast.net
Sun Jul 17 19:25:06 UTC 2016


On 07/15/2016 03:00 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> #  Pull the latest version: this is why I haven't had
> #  to touch the setup in some time
> /usr/bin/git pull
> /usr/bin/git branch
>
> # this is the actual invocation
> /usr/local/bin/mfdb-json/mfdb-json.php  --x --force --dbhost=localhost
> --dbname=mythconverg --dbuser=mythtv --dbpassword=mythtv
> --user=yourSDusername--password=yourSDpassword --skiplogo
> exit
>
>
> Works like a charm with mythtv.

I tried the Robert K program on my test machine. I am using Ubuntu 16.04
and Mythtv 0.28. There were multiple issues, see the ticket that I
raised below.

https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/mfdb-json/issues/20

Perhaps it does not work because php5 no longer exists and it has
problems with php7.
Maybe it does not work with 0.28?

This was originally denigrated by the developers as it was directly
updating the database.

If I remember correctly it would add all channels to your database
regardless of whether you need them, and I seem to remember would reset
all of the priority settings on the channels. I use the priority
settings, so that would be no good.

Peter



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