[mythtv-users] Problems using tv_grab_nz

James Ogle jogle at wetafx.co.nz
Mon Nov 1 23:33:11 UTC 2004


James Tyson wrote:

>> Not about to let those ozzies have all the problems with their 
>> grabber, I'm having trouble with the new tv_grab_nz from 
>> http://mr.geek.nz/epg/
>>
>> I installed knoppixMyth4.5 in the weekend on my new athlon xp 2200 
>> with a pvr350 and got things mostly working (except tuning anything 
>> remotely looking like a tv station, but thats a whole other issue)
>>
>> Foolishly expecting the grabber to just work, I copied it into 
>> /usr/bin/ and ran mythfilldatabase.... it seems like tv_grab_nz is 
>> expecting different options then mythfilldatabase is giving it, I 
>> couldn't find how I could change this at the mythtv end.
>>
>> Can someone point me at where the mythfilldatabase settings are?
>>
>> Is there a different way I should be using the grabber?
>>
>> Am I making any sense at all?
>
>
> Just write a shell script that downloads 
> http://nz.ontv.uni.cc/listings.xml and put it in the place of tv_grab_nz.

Thanks for that, its a good listing source, But I have Saturn cable tv 
and want to be able to access listings for all the Sky channels too.

-James

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