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

[Paul Gardiner]

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 :-(