[mythtv-users] tv_grab_huro regularly fails

[Alistair Grant]

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 January 2015 at 16:57, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you're capable of diving into the code, you could look for the
>>> time-out setting and raise that. This is the time it waits for
>>> response, after which it fails.
>>
>> Yep.  Based on observing the behaviour of the grabber, I assume that
>> it is fetching numerous pages, and that if any one fails, it gives up.
>> It would also be worthwhile having a retry on each page (with a delay
>> in between).
>>
>> mythbuntu 14.04 installs tv_grab_huro v1.48, while
>> http://xmltv.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/xmltv/ contains a version
>> 1.53.
>>
>> I'd prefer to work on the latest version.  Can anyone confirm that
>> this is the correct source repository?
>
> That is the XMLTV project's official CVS repository.
>
> I also keep an XMLTV mirror on github (which is synced often, there is
> very low commit traffic) which you might find more useful:
>
> https://github.com/knowledgejunkie/XMLTV

Thanks!  For the confirmation and the git repository.

I tried extending the timeout on the fetches, but that didn't help.
I'm currently testing retrying failed downloads and that seems
promising, but more testing is required.

Thanks again,
Alistair