[mythtv-users] Unable to access BBC Red Button

Alasdair Macdonald wewalkforonereason at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 16:11:34 UTC 2014


Possibly related to this BBC infrastructure change?

https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/get_iplayer-search-and-pvr-functions-no-longer-work-no-fix-available/

"The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer, so
search and PVR functions for TV and radio no longer work. There is no
programme information to cache, and it was the cache that supported
search and PVR functions."

Does MythTV use the same data source?


On 2 November 2014 15:59, Paul M <dazzle at edazzle.net> wrote:
> I have recently found I am unable to access the BBC Red Button services. I
> also have no 'red button' graphic at the top right of the screen on channels
> like BBC News or BBC1. I have 'Enable interactive services' checked in the
> mythfrontend settings.
>
> When I do press the 'red button' I eventually get a message which says 'Due
> to a technical problem, we are unable to carry out your request at
> this time. We apologise for any inconvenience.'
>
> I have noticed in the terminal that freemheg is trying to access a web
> address starting with 'http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/' so I presume it is
> trying to get the red button off of the web. I can see no option to 'Enable
> network access for interactive TV'.
>
> I am running fixes/0.27 (0.27.2-13).


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