[mythtv-users] program guide problems

Luke McKee hojuruku at gmail.com
Wed Dec 27 07:38:29 UTC 2006


Richard,

I think I know what your problem is :_)

I think I have used that grabber, or at least I think so. There are 3
of them for us aussies.

1) Uses abc2.gov.au, yahoo, and a yahoo widget (free) - written in perl

I don't know where I downloaded it but if you have these lines in the
top of the perl file
}
$y7w_channel_id{"ABC"} =                        "abcvic.free.au";
$y7w_channel_id{"Seven"} =                      "channelsevenmelbourne.free.au";
$y7w_channel_id{"Nine"} =                       "channelninemelbourne.free.au";
$y7w_channel_id{"TEN"} =                        "networktenmelbourne.free.au";
$y7w_channel_id{"SBS"} =                        "sbsmelbourne.free.au";

If you see these you have got the same one as me. I downloaded it
pretty recently and I can email it to you on request.. I can't see a
url for the author in the code :P

Note this script does not have a --configuration option like other
grabbers. You have to edit the top of the perl file yourself unless
you live in Melbourne, Australia.

2) Also icetv.com.au gives a free month trial which I'm taking them up
on - because with wireless broadband I don't want to chew too much
downloads.... Icetv use numeric source id's - check with your script
it varies.

3) the one you've got, if it's not the first one.

To fix your problem I think you need to go into channel editor found
in mythtv-setup and assign the XMLTV ID (aka source id): to each
channel. The xmltv id should be inside the perl grabber script, like
the example I just gave you....

Or just run mythfilldatabase with the --manual option and it will ask
you ask it takes the data for an unknown channel to assign an
unmatched xmltvID to a channel number, and whola your TV guide works.


I've got a problem with TV guides myself:
Please let me know if when you do get it going you get more than 7
days of data. No matter how much I tell mythbackend to download (see
below) it only inserts 7 days worth of data into the database...
Anyone else had this problem and where do you change the setting for
this?? I think this is self inflicted configuration issue.. Can anyone
help me??? :P

I run mythfilldatabase like this.
mythfilldatabase --max-days 30 --graboptions "--days=30" -v database
2>&1 > /var/log/mythtv/mythfilldatabase.log

I'm going to sleep now. Maybe someone will help me with all my gripes
too by the time I wake up.

PS I did a Sair Linux and Gnu Engineer course and now LPI arn't
keeping their promise as in a press release to cross certify me. P/M
me about Redhat can do ;)

Have a good one.

Luke


On 27/12/06, Richard Keech <rkeech at redhat.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I'm having a problem with the program guide not showing up with MythTV.
>
> I find that if I look at the program guide (Manage recordings ->
> Schedule -> P rogram Guide) then the
> contents of the guide show as unknown for all times on all channels.
> Despite this, if I look at the program finder (Manage recordings ->
> Schedule -> Program Finder) I can
> see all the expected programs, so the programs are in there.
>
> Aside from the EPG problem, my MythTV is apparently working fine.
>
> I'm getting guide data from tvguide.org.au aka oztivo, and I'm using the
> grabber scripts from
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/tv_grab_au_reg.html.  I can
> confirm that access to the EPG data is OK by doing:
>
>     tv_grab_au --config-file /home/mythtv/.mythtv/antenna.xml
>
> If I run (as user mythtv) mythfilldatabase, then it runs as expected.
>
> So aside from the obvious "why doesn't it work", this raises a number of
> questions:
>
> 1.   Can I run mythbackend to dump the program guide data?
>
> 2.   Can I query the database directly to see the EPG data?
>
>
> FYI, I'm running mythtv-0.20-148.fc6.at on FC6 (fully updated).
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