[mythtv-users] Do multiple sources need multiple .xmltv files?

[Karl Dietz]

On 23.10.2012 23:21, Stephen Robertson wrote:
>> Then, ran mythupchuk and created an xmltv file by running tv_grabber_uk_rt
>> --configure and made 3 copied of this in /home/mythtv/.mythtv all named
>> after the 3 sources.
>>
>> I commented everything out apart from the HD channels in the xmltv file for
>> the HD source, I had to add ITV HD manually, as tv_grabber_uk_rt does not
>> seem to add this one.
>> I then ran through mythweb channel editor, checking that EIT was turned on
>> for channels with no xmltv ID and visa versa.
>>
>> I then ran mythfilldatabase and checked through any xmltv IDs it complained
>> about.  There were a few that mythupchuk had added incorrectly into the
>> database, which I edited in mythweb to the correct ones from my xmltv file.
>> There were also some IDs that I did not have a channel for, so commented
>> those out.
>
> Do you remember which channels mythupchuck got wrong and how?  I've
> been tinkering with it (though it's not my script) a bit to iron out
> some issues I had  and one issue I was going to try and fix is that if
> you choose freesat when running the tv_grab_uk_rt--configure it puts
> in the freesat channel 4 xmltvid, but mythupchuk matches against the
> first one in the complete list which is prefixed freeview.  If you
> rememeber where you had problems I might try and send a fix for them
> if I can  to the owner of the script as well.

Have you considered to use the tv_grab_uk_rt lineup data to seed the
mythupchuck configuration?

e.g. 
http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/xmltv/grab/uk_rt/lineups/freesat.xml?revision=1.15&view=markup

Regards,
Karl