[mythtv-users] Problems with BLEB listings

[Mark Crutch]

First, a disclaimer: I'm still running 0.14, because I'm in the process of of obtaining the parts to build a new master backend server when I will rebuild my current machine as a frontend and slave backend. I figured there was little point upgrading if the machine is going to be rebuilt in a month or two anyway.

I manually update my listings from bleb.org a couple of times a week using the following script, which I found kicking around somewhere via a link from this list (the wget stuff is all on one line in the script, and my own copy only gets the terrestrial channels):-

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#!/bin/sh
echo "-Remove old data.xml file if it exists..."
rm /tmp/data.xml >nul
echo "-Download updated listings from www.bleb.org..."
wget -q -O /tmp/tvdata.zip 
"http://www.bleb.org/tv/data/listings?days=0..6&format=xmltv&channels=bbc1,bbc2,itv1,itv2,ftn,ch4,five&file=zip"  >nul
echo "-Uncompress.."
cd /tmp
unzip /tmp/tvdata.zip >nul
echo "-Update MythTV.."
mythfilldatabase --file 1 -1 /tmp/data.xml >nul
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This has been working fine up until a few days ago. At first the result from wget made it look like bleb.org was down, so I didn't worry too much, but last night it got the zip okay but still wouldn't populate the database.

Unzipping it showed that the xml file has changed name from "data.xml" to "raw.xml", so I tried manually running the last line of the script, pointing it at the "raw.xml" file. Unfortunately this also failed to populate the database.

As a short-term solution, I've ended up grabbing the listings using the RT grabber, but the shortcomings of that are well documented, and I'd much rather get my nice BLEB feed working again if I can.

So, I guess the questions are:

1) Has anyone else had any recent problems using BLEB?
2) Has the XML format from BLEB changed recently, and are there any switches to get the old listing instead?
3) Will upgrading to 0.15 fix this problem? Is there anything else I can do or try before resorting to that?


Just to preempt the obvious; I have checked the bleb.org site but there is no recent news, and no mention of additional switches I could add to the URL. I also checked the XMLTV site in case they had announced a format change, but they just mention a proposed change with the next major version. 

The bleb mailing list archive shows only very old messages. I appreciate that I might need to redirect this mail at the bleb mailing list, but as I'm already on way more mailing lists than I can manage, I'd rather not have to sign up for another if someone here can help.

Cheers,

Mark