[mythtv-users] Help with xmltv UK (Radiotimes) and MythTV?

Stephen G sgreszcz at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 18 09:07:04 UTC 2008


I'm just setting up a new lightweight MythTV backend (nova-TD dual USB tuner, Ubuntu Gutsy server running from CF card).  I can get the scan to work correctly and pick up the channels (Crystal Palace), but I am
 having a nightmare trying to get the xmltv grabber and mythfilldatabase to fill the database.  I'm
 not really sure of the procedure.  Does anyone tips or a tutorial/howto?

So far I'm adding the video source and scanning for channels.  Then I
 mythfilldatabase when I exit mythtv-setup but it seems not to link the channels that
 were scanned with the information that was downloaded from Radiotimes.

mythtv at 247:~$ mythfilldatabase
2008-01-18 09:04:41.059 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2008-01-18 09:04:41.102 New DB connection, total: 1
2008-01-18 09:04:41.115 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-01-18 09:04:41.127 New DB connection, total: 2
2008-01-18 09:04:41.128 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-01-18 09:04:41.130 Updating source #1 (UK Radiotimes) with grabber tv_grab_uk_rt
2008-01-18 09:04:41.131 No channels are configured to use grabber.
2008-01-18 09:04:41.168 Grabber has capabilities: baseline manualconfig cache share preferredmethod
2008-01-18 09:04:41.204 Grabber prefers method: allatonce
2008-01-18 09:04:41.207 New DB connection, total: 3
2008-01-18 09:04:41.208 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost
2008-01-18 09:04:41.212 Grabber Command: nice tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file '/home/mythtv/.mythtv/UK Radiotimes.xmltv' --output /tmp/mythDUh4Um
2008-01-18 09:04:41.212 ----------------- Start of XMLTV output -----------------

All data is the copyright of the Radio Times website
<http://www.radiotimes.com> and the use of this data
is restricted to personal use only.

Radio Times reports available listings for 270 channels.

Retrieving channels
RT channel 'National Geographic Wild' (22) flagged as bad, skipping
RT channel 'Dave' (2050) unknown in XMLTV channel_ids file
RT channel 'Dave +1' (2052) unknown in XMLTV channel_ids file
RT channel 'Al Jazeera' (2055) unknown in XMLTV channel_ids file
RT channel 'Channel 4 HD' (2056) unknown in XMLTV channel_ids file

XMLTV channel 'plus-1.g2.uktv.flextech.telewest.co.uk' (1871) not seen on RT site
XMLTV channel 'uk-gold-2.flextech.telewest.co.uk' (289) not seen on RT site
Downloading listings for 268 configured channels

Retrieving listings

...

Help?  Thanks,

Stephen







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