[mythtv-users] Newbie Question(s)

[BARKER, Paul]

Hi

>Hmmm... However, the RT site provides the data (as far as I can see) as 
>14 day "chunks" for each channel. There's no easy way to grab single 
>days from the data which they are (very graciously) providing.

Yep that's right. Instead of asking mythfilldatabase to grab the info from RT
I use tv_grab_uk_rt directly like this:

tv_grab_uk_rt --configfile channels.xmltv --output data.xml --days 1

This results is 14 days of data, but it means that it's only downloaded once.
If you don't specify the --days 1 flag then you end up with the default of 14
days which means that you download 14 days of data 14 times.

It's pretty easy to get it into Myth :

mythfilldatabase --file 1 0 data.xml

The xmltv config file is just a list of channels, I think Myth auto generates
one in ~mythtv/.mythtv and names is sourceid.xml. Forgive me if I have that
slightly wrong since I'm at work away from my servers.

You could also use bleb (tv_grab_uk_bleb). I use a mixture of the 2 (bleb
does some channels RT does not - BBC3 BBC4 and Radio) and hand built xmltv
config files for each. I jut have a script that wraps it all together and run
it from cron on the B/E.

Initially I was a bit upset with RT for pushing 14 days of data in a 1 day
file but then as you point out, they're doing this for free so I think I can
live with it.

HTH

Paul


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