[mythtv-users] Different mythfilldatabase commands for different sources

[Peter Bennett (cats22)]

On 02/02/2016 07:02 AM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Ian,
>
> Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 12:09:41 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>>> There won't be any duplicates. As stated SD is for my North American
>>>> channels and I just want listings for one lone channel from Britain via
>>>> HLS. It should be an interesting exercise. I wonder if I have to adjust
>>> the
>>>> time zone for the UK listing or it might be in UTC.
>>> That means it is on a separate source. You can set-up the grabber
>>> through the source and let it run automatically.
>>>
>>>
>> Might be one of those "don't configure after a sleepless night" issues but
>> a few questions:
>> 1) after using mythtv-setup to configure the atlas grabber, it it exits
>> with a status 0 after selecting the channels in the feed. What is status 0?
>> 2) mythtv-setup creates the .xmltv directory under /home/ian shouldn't it
>> be under /home/mythtv?
>> 3) if it should be my /home/ian directory, should I be changing permissions?
>> Thanks.
> 1 Exitstatus by default means OK
>
> 2 It creates the .xmltv directory in the current home directory, so
> you should run it as user mythtv. Very probable you could copy over
> the directory and content to the mythtv home directory
> (/home/mythtv/.xmltv or /var/lib/mythtv/.xmltv under mythbuntu) and
> change ownership (chown -R mythtv.mythtv /home/mythtv/.xmltv)
>
>

This is one of the problems with these grabbers. In mythbuntu the mythtv
user is a system user, but the backend uses it for running
mythfilldatabase. So as Hika suggests, best to copy the data over to
mythtv after setting up.

Peter