[mythtv-users] Notice to Schedules Direct users

[R. G. Newbury]

On 17/10/14 02:08 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
>>> On 17/10/14 17:02, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Personally I'd never use a third party app that even inserted data
>>>>> into the existing mythconverg tables, let alone one that did stuff
>>>>> like adding tables
>>>>
>>>> The current version of the grabber creates its own database.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm curious :) So how does that data then get into the myth database
>>> so it can use it?
>>>
>>> Paul H.
>>>
>> Precisely...
>
> Let us be gracious and congratulate Robert on the first
> step he has made to actually address the entire sentence
> he quoted.  Sure, it is only a first step, and there is more
> to do, but I would expect he wishes this to be production
> worthy for the largest customer base of SD, and a logical
> next step will be to be XMLTV compatible output.  I would
> not "kill the messenger" in announcing a work in progress
> as long as there is a stated intent to move towards the
> real goals.  I am, however, waiting for SD to actually
> announce their real goals in this effort.

Part of the problem here is that Mythtv does not NEED XMLTV compatible 
output. The mfdb-json grabber parses the JSON and inserts *text* into 
the tables.

It would be a nice *next* step for someone to write a parser which takes 
the JSON in the new schedulesdirect database and outputs XMLTV. THAT 
would make the output available to a much larger group of SD users.

But it is not a necessary step for mythtv users. It might be a sign of 
maturity to stop whining that it does not do what you would like it to 
do. I would not be surprised to learn that a JSON->XML module already 
exists in php and perl. But of course, you would need to have the exact 
schema structure unless you want to reverse-engineer from the database.
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              R. Geoffrey Newbury