[mythtv-users] Radio Times missing all stations (as far as I can tell)

[Stephen Kitchener]

On Tuesday 04 Sep 2007, Gary Dawes wrote:
> Just to upset the people for whom it isn't working. It has been working
> fine for me without any hiccups at all. I'm running the version which came
> with knoppmyth r5e50, which dates from last christmas. All I've done is
> tweak the channels id file to add new channels as they've been added. have
> you checked the xmltv lists as they are usually hot on this sort of thing.
>
> this does sometimes happen with RT though, and it usually resolves after a
> few days
>
> gary
>
> On 04/09/07, James Cummings <cummings.james at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/4/07, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 04/09/07, Robin Neatherway <robthebob at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > eeek! -
> > > > >
> > > > > I have had a look and the channels.dat is empty......
> > > >
> > > > Just to confirm - same here... ouch
> > >
> > > I'm not sure it this is relevant, but as a heads up - there is (or
> > > was) a bug in tv_grab_uk_rt which meant that when it is run *not*
> > > inside a terminal window (eg run from cron (or possibly mythtv) then
> > > tv_grab_uk_rt doesn't append the <\tv> to the end of its output, and
> > > mythfilldatabase chokes on the xmltv data, producing the "no programs
> > > found in data" error message.
> > >
> > > Maybe this bug has just appeared in the packaged version of xmltv?
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.nabble.com/--xmltv-Bugs-1767747---uk_rt-fails-when-not-in-a-
> > >terminal-t4218340.html
> > >
> > > Apologies in advance if this is a red-herring.
> >
> > Just to confirm what others were saying: for some part of yesterday and
> > the day before  at least, the channels.dat at radiotimes.com was
> > blank/empty ...even though the channel files had data in them.  It now
> > has data in it as well.
> >
> >  http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat
> >
> > -James
> >
> > --
> > James Cummings, Cummings dot James at GMail dot com
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To Whom ever fixed the zero length file .....

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