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

[Paul Gardiner]

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.

Cheers,
	Paul.