[mythtv-users] MythBackend OS X and Schedules Direct

[Joann Bessler]

On 15-Jul-08, at 12:33 PM, "Bill Carlson" wrote:

>
> Thanks, this will clearly be helpful.  However, my problem is  
> earlier than this.
> In the MythSetup app it can't get to schedules direct, so I have no  
> starting
> point to choose my lineup, etc.  Is there a manual way to do that?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bill

Back during the great migration from Zap2it to Schedules Direct I  
couldn't get my Mac OS backend to log in to Schedules Direct. I found  
the easiest way around that problem (for me) was to just run XMLTV. I  
have cron run two shell scripts every night, the first fetches the  
listings with XMLTV, and the second pushes the listings into myth with  
calls to mythfilldatabase for each of my lineups. This works so easily  
that I never bothered to trace what the original problem was, though I  
suspect a wget issue.

The app "Crontooie" makes editing the crontab file easy in OS X.

http://quicksilver.caup.washington.edu/software/Crontooie/