[mythtv-users] Australians: can you help me gather some data?

[Xander Victory]

On 12/11/2013 2:44 AM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
> On 11 November 2013 19:02, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com 
> <mailto:philledwards at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Xander, I too would be glad to help, but you may be
>     over-estimating people's abilities to download and compile code. I
>     have no idea how to download all those files from github and
>     hardly, hardly ever compile anything. If you could make it a bit
>     easier to get the software and run it then you might get a bigger
>     response.
>
>     Also, just thought I'd mention that Shepherd does a great job in
>     providing guide data in Australia, though you probably already
>     know that.
>
>
> If you really want this data I would suggest setting this up in a ppa 
> or an rpm, also maybe provide a script to generate the channels.conf 
> from the mythtv database
>
> as I'm getting errors making this, perhaps as ubuntu uses zlib1g-dev 
> instead of libz-dev ?

I'm not 100% on etiquette for reply to multiple people, so I hope you 
all see this!

 >How quickly do you need this information?
No rush for me; it works nicely for me, but just won't work outside of 
Perth - depends on how soon you guys wanna give it a go.

Apologies about the skill level.
I'll look into making a ppa or something - I run Gentoo, so it's a bit 
foreign to me (I've not made packages for Ubuntu).
What is the most common version of Ubuntu with you all? I've got a Saucy 
chroot install available, so need to know if I need to go older.
Failing that I'll do a step by step Ubuntu based guide.

Managed to compile rb-download statically (just now), so hopefully it 
works on other systems. (contains both 32bit and 64bit versions)
http://xandervictory.id.au/rb-download-static.tar.bz2

As for channels.conf, it's not really worth writing a script to do it; 
dvdscan generates it quite easily. 
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Dvbscan
If you don't want to install more stuff, and aren't afraid of a mysql 
query, I can give an SQL query that gives me similar info (though I've 
only tested it on a 0.25 schema)

 >Also, just thought I'd mention that Shepherd does a great job in 
providing guide data in Australia, though you probably already know that.
Indeed, I've not really used it (apart from testing); I used to use 
OzTivo's data.
This project means I don't rely on either of those services; it just 
gets the schedule from the dvb data and processes/augments it to provide 
good listings. Also with a couple of patches it allows me to use the eit 
info to extend a recording if it goes over! And the schedule is more 
accurate (it gets updated when the networks run behind)


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