[mythtv-users] Customised channel grabbing

[Nick Rout]

Thanks for that, I'll patch it back in and see what happens.

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 14:09 -0500, Korey Fort wrote:
> I searched the svn for you. It seems this was removed. Here is the link.
> http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/6059 at least that what it appears to
> have happened.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nick Rout
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:57 AM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Customised channel grabbing
> 
> Mythtv v 18.1 (gentoo ebuild).
> 
> I am in New Zealand and I have found on the net a program that downloads
> xml data for NZ TV programs. The data is already in xml format, it is
> downloaded from a website already in xmltv format.
> 
> How do I incorporate this in mythtv? There seems to be a hard-coded list
> of grabbers in the mythsetup gui.
> 
> I got brave and tried the following:
> 
> 1. set up a dummy entry in mythsetup
> 
> 2. use mysql at the command line to change the dummy entry to my script
> tv_grab_nz  [1]:
> 
> mysql> UPDATE videosource SET xmltvgrabber = 'tv_grab_nz' WHERE sourceid
> = '1';
> 
> 
> mysql> select sourceid,name,xmltvgrabber from videosource;
> +----------+--------+--------------+
> | sourceid | name   | xmltvgrabber |
> +----------+--------+--------------+
> |        1 | Sky_NZ | tv_grab_nz   |
> +----------+--------+--------------+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> However when i run mythfilldatabase --manual I get this:
> 
> mythfilldatabase --manual
> ###
> ### Running in manual channel configuration mode.
> ### This will ask you questions about every channel.
> ###
> 2005-06-29 23:53:09.362 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2005-06-29 23:53:09.379 mythfilldatabase: Listings Download Started
> 2005-06-29 23:53:09.383 New DB connection, total: 2
> Grabbing XMLTV data using tv_grab_nz is not verified as working.
> 2005-06-29 23:53:09.397 New DB connection, total: 3
> Adjusting program database end times...
> 0 replacements made.
> 2005-06-29 23:53:09.406 mythfilldatabase: Listings Download Finished
> Marking repeats...found 0
> Unmarking repeats from grabber that fall within our new episode
> window...found 0
> 2005-06-29 23:53:09.418 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.11:6543
> (try 1 of 5)
> 2005-06-29 23:53:09.425 Using protocol version 15
> 
> 
> Nothing is downloaded, it takes quite a while to download the data from
> the command line when just using the script, and its pretty obvious that
> theres no time being spent on the download. Also nothing ends up in the
> "program" table in the database (I assume that is the correct table?)
> 
> I had a look at filldata.cpp in the source code, and it seems obvious to
> me that the error message "Grabbing XMLTV data using tv_grab_nz is not
> verified as working." is being generated there. However i frankly see
> the whole of c++ as double dutch, so I am not able to do whatever is
> necessary to integrate my script in there.
> 
> So, where to from here?
> 
> [1] not really "my" script as I did not write it, its just shortcut for
> "the script I downloaded and am trying to use".
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Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz>