[mythtv-users] tv_grab_huro regularly fails

[Alistair Grant]

Hi Hika,

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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 :-().
>
> 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?'

Yep, tv_grab_huro does work sometimes (that's what I meant by "fails
more often than not" above), I've been able to open www.port.cz in my
browser (different machine, but same internet connection) and can curl
the URL from the myth machine.

No proxy anywhere on the local network, and I can ssh / scp GB of data
between machines without problem.  While I can't rule out problems
with the internet connection entirely, I haven't had any other issues
with the connection.

Thanks,
Alistair