[mythtv-users] Get zero channels from RadioTimes download

[John Veness]

Mike Holden wrote:
> Having trouble getting my TV listings set up.
> 
> When I run
>     /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt --configure --debug
> 
> I get the following output, specifically the statement that there are zero
> channels. I think the following error message is due to the zero channels
> rather than a problem in itself (although this ought to be handled!)
> 
> --Start output
> Retrieving list of available channels from Radio Times
> Fetching http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat from cache without
> checking with server.
> Converting list of available channels from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1
> 
> The Radio Times reports available listings for 0 channels. We have
> flagged 11 of these channels as unusable as they currently contain no
> listings.
> 
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt line 570.
> ---End output
> 
> Running
>     mythfilldatabase --manual
> gives
>     config file /home/mike/.mythtv/2.xmltv is empty, please delete and run
> me with --configure
> 
> Is there an issue with RT at the moment that anyone knows about?
> 
> I am using myth from Fedora using the usual guide, and my code is up to
> date as of the atrpms/freshrpms updates through yum.
> 
> THis is after deleting existing listings through myth setup, and starting
> over.

I haven't had any new data from RT for a couple of days either. I've 
reported this on the XMLTV list, which is probably a better place to 
discuss this (see http://xmltv.org/)

Cheers,

John

-- 
John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T