[mythtv-users] UK: tv_grab_uk_atlas swap over fail!

Mike Bibbings mike.bibbings at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 16:23:42 UTC 2014


On 01/10/14 06:27, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 30/09/2014 18:53, Mike Bibbings wrote:
>> On 30/09/14 17:37, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>> On 30/09/2014 13:30, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>> On 30/09/2014 13:14, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>>> On 30/09/2014 12:26, Paul Harrison wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 30 Sep 2014 11:45, "Paul Gardiner" <lists at glidos.net
>>>>>> <mailto:lists at glidos.net>> wrote:
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > I thought it was time I got around to swapping over from
>>>>>> tv_grab_uk_rt
>>>>>>  > to tv_grab_uk_atlas. All seemed to go well, nice easy set up,
>>>>>> except
>>>>>>  > it doesn't work :-( and I cannot figure what I've done wrong.
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > I registered and obtained an API key, and ran
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  >  tv_grab_uk_atlas --configure
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > That produced $HOME/.xmltv/tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf with the new
>>>>>>  > mysterious four letter channel ids.
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > After that, running
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  >  tv_grab_uk_atlas --quiet
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > seems to download the channel info. It also seems to pull down
>>>>>>  > the file
>>>>>> .xmltv/supplement/tv_grab_uk_atlas/tv_grab_uk_atlas.map.channel.conf
>>>>>>  > so that it can translate the four letter ids to something like
>>>>>>  > the old ones, and the downloaded channel data does seem to 
>>>>>> mention
>>>>>>  > old style ids. I noticed that some of these were slightly
>>>>>> different:
>>>>>>  > e.g., channel4.co.uk <http://channel4.co.uk> is now channel4.com
>>>>>> <http://channel4.com>, so I updated my mythconverg
>>>>>>  > channels table with the new values.
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > I then use the script below to fetch:
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > #!/bin/bash
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > TEMPFILE=/tmp/mythfill$$
>>>>>>  > tv_grab_uk_atlas --quiet > $TEMPFILE
>>>>>>  > mythfilldatabase --update --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile $TEMPFILE
>>>>>>  > mythfilldatabase --update --file --sourceid 2 --xmlfile $TEMPFILE
>>>>>>  > mythfilldatabase --update --file --sourceid 3 --xmlfile $TEMPFILE
>>>>>>  > rm $TEMPFILE
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > but I get no new data and I have only 11 days worth, which I 
>>>>>> assume
>>>>>>  > is from the last successful tv_grab_uk_rt fetch.
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > I see in the output loads of
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > "Unknown xmltv channel identifier:" even from ones that are 
>>>>>> clearly
>>>>>>  > in myth's channel table. What am I doing wrong? Is there 
>>>>>> somewhere
>>>>>>  > else myth keeps a list of these channels and checks against them?
>>>>>>  > I no longer have a Freeview.xmltv file, but I assume that file's
>>>>>>  > job is taken over by tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf.
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > Very confused.
>>>>>>  >
>>>>>>  > Cheers,
>>>>>>  >         Paul.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think you will have to rename tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf to
>>>>>> Freeview.xmltv
>>>>>> for Myth to find it.  I assume Freeview is the name you gave to the
>>>>>> source in Myth.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's certainly worth a try. But then if that works what would be
>>>>> strange is that either my old or new setup worked because I have
>>>>> three sources all with different names, but I've had only the one
>>>>> .xmltv file in .mythtv.
>>>>>
>>>>> Trying it in any case.
>>>>
>>>> No luck. I tried using tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf as a new Freeview.xmltv
>>>> (although I couldn't really see how mythtv could make use the new
>>>> four-letter codes it contains) and I tried using my old Freeview.xmltv
>>>> file. No luck in either case :-(
>>>
>>> Actually, maybe this is working. Is atlas 7 days or 14 days? The main
>>> reason I've been thinking it was failing was because my number of days
>>> of guide data has been stuck on 11. Looking again at the "Unknown id"
>>> errors, it's only reporting the ones that aren't in that particular
>>> source.
>>>
>>
>> You can check how much data you have in either mythfrontend (System
>> Status)  or Mythweb  (Backend Status)
>
> Yeah, that's the problem. I was seeing 11 days yesterday - today
> 10. On the other hand, mythfilldatabase just reported
>
>  Updated programs: 1755 Unchanged programs: 7426
>
> so it's working to some degree. Still confused.
>
> Paul.
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Paul,

As you are running running the grabber outside of mythfilldatabase, try 
adding "--days 14" to the tv_grab_uk_atlas line in your script so it 
looks like

    tv_grab_uk_atlas --days 14 --quiet > $TEMPFILE

Mike


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