[mythtv-users] tv_grab_huro regularly fails

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Alistair,

Friday, January 2, 2015, 10:27:40 AM, you wrote:

> Hi All,

> I'm currently using tv_grab_huro to populate the free-to-air listings
> in the Czech Republic, however more often than not it fails with a
> message similar to:

> could not fetch
> http://www.port.cz/pls/tv/tv.channel?i_ch=20006&i_date=20150110&i_xday=5&i_where=1,
> error: 500 Can't connect to www.port.cz:80 (Connection timed out),
> aborting
> INFO: tv_grab exit code: 110

> I'm not familiar with this in Czech (shepherd in Australia "just
> works"), so am not sure whether this is common behaviour or not.

> mythfilldatabase is being run without any parameters (default configuration).

> Can someone let me know if there is something I should do to improve
> the reliability (I'm not aware of any other internet problems here),
> or whether I should start diving in to the code to see if I can make
> this a bit more reliable (I *really* hate perl :-().

> Thanks very much,
> Alistair
> _______________________________________________

The site www.port.cz does exist. I can open it in my browser, can you?
If not you have to look into your machines internet settings.
Do you perchance use a proxy or anything like that or the most
elementary question: 'Is the machine connected to the internet?'

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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