[mythtv-users] mythtv without internet-connection?

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Dennis Lou
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 12:27 PM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] mythtv without internet-connection?
>
>
> From: Mike Miller <miller44 at optonline.net>
> >Im not 100% sure if this would work but I suppose
> >you could download
> >like a months worth of listings using xmltv on a
> >computer that does have
> >internet (there is xmltv for windows too) and copy
> >the file manually
> >over to the linux box.
>
> If you are in North America, Zap2it only looks
> 1 week to 10 days in advance.
>
> What I was thinking would be to run mythbackend
> and mysql on an internet connected machine, then
> on a nightly and/or weekly basis do
> mysqldump -u mythtv mythconverg program > data.sql
> then save data.sql to a disc or disk and on the
> mythtv box:
>
> mysql -u mythtv mythconverg -e "delete * from
> program;"
> mysql -u mythtv mythconverg < /mnt/floppy/data.sql
>
> -Dennis

I believe you could just run your tv grabber (i.e., tv_grab_na) on any
internet-connected machine to grab a week's worth of listings (max for
Zap2It in North America, anyway) and direct the output to a file.  That file
can then be used as input to mythfilldatabase on your Myth box
(mythfilldatabase --manual, IIRC).

-JAC