[mythtv-users] Switching to tv_grab_uk_atlas

[Alex Tomlins]

Hi all,

I've just switched my system to use tv_grab_uk_atlas instead of 
tv_grab_uk_rt, and thought it would be worth sharing some of my notes.

Firstly tv_grab_uk_atlas requires xmltv 0.5.65 or greater.  The versions 
included in Ubuntu are 0.5.61 (Ubuntu 12.04) and 0.5.63 (Ubuntu 14.04).  
I've therefore packaged up version 0.5.66 for 12.04 and 14.04 in a PPA 
here: https://launchpad.net/~alex-tomlins/+archive/ubuntu/xmltv

tv_grab_uk_atlas also doesn't use xmltv ids in the config file, it uses 
its own somewhat opaque internal ids, which makes it harder to match 
things up and select which channels to fetch.  To make this easier, I 
wrote a little script to annotate the atlas xmltv config file with 
comments including the xmltv ids - 
https://gist.github.com/alext/73a1e279fc133956d08f  (eg 'channel=cbbh' 
becomes 'channel=cbbh # london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk # (94) -- BBC One 
London').  This script doesn't modify the source config file, it just 
outputs a modified version of it that can be saved to a new file, and 
then moved into place.

Some of the xmltv ids differ between the radio times grabber and the 
atlas grabber (eg channel5.co.uk becomes channel5.com, itv.co.uk becomes 
itv.com etc.), so it's worth checking through all the existing ids to 
make sure everything is still correct.

I hope this helps someone.

thanks,
Alex

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