[mythtv-users] problems with tvtoday grabber and mythfilldatabase --manual

[lau.ent at gmx.ch]

> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: "David Watkins" <watkinshome at gmail.com>

> Well if your grabber doesn't provide channel numbers you'll have to
> enter them into the frequency field of the channel setup screen in
> mythtv.  Not sure how you'd find out what they need to be though.  In
> the UK you can generally look up the channel numbers for the local
> transmitter for OTA.  I've never used cable but I assume cable
> providers also provide this information.  If you can put your card in
> a windows box then the provided software will do a scan and find the
> channel numbers for you.
> 
> 
> In the UK I ran the radio times grabber with the --configure option,
> which let me pick the channels I wanted and created a config file
> containing a list of xmltv ids.  I entered the appropriate xmltv id
> into the mythtv channel editor too.
> 
> Now I run the grabber and mythfilldatabase with the --file option. 
> The grabber first, to create the xmltv file, then mythfilldatabase to
> read the file in.  I've never bothered to try and combine the
> operation into a single mythfilldatabase command, though I assume it
> can be done.
> 
> Not sure that this will help you in Switzerland, but it might - Good Luck.

Hi David and thanks a lot for those infos.

I did exactly what you said more or less easily and got the desired results!
I have my EPG populated with program infos and my channels configured.

For the record, this is what I did:
1. tv_grab_de_tvtoday --configure
--> this populated the file ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_de_tvtoday.conf with the list
of channels. I removed some of the channels I didn't want from that list.
2. tv_grab_de_tvtoday --config-file ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_de_tvtoday.conf
--output ~/.xmltv/output.xml
--> this is the actual grab for EPG infos. I specified the file output.xml
to store the output. The grab took quite a long time.
3. mythfilldatabase --file cable -1 output.xml
--> This filled the mythtv database with EPG infos. (cable is the name of my
video source)
4. opened the channel editor from within mythtv-setup and configured the new
imported channels. I had to specify for each channel its video source
(cable), its channel number and frequency. I got those infos from my cable
provider and ptune-ui.

My next question would now be, is there a way to automate the grabbing
process? Should I put the commands into crontab?

Thank you
laurent

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