[mythtv-users] Running SD JSON grabber on separate system to MythTV backend

[Ian Campbell]

On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 14:02 +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Not sure whether this is MythTV or XMLTV list material - or both !
> 
> OK, so I'm going through the process of switching from the UK RT
> grabber to Schedules Direct. As my Myth system is rather old (0.24.1
> on Debian Squeeze) I'm not even going to try and get the up to date
> dependencies sorted on that. So for the time being I've setup a small
> VM on my laptop running Wheezy and have pulled in the later PERL
> version from Jessie. The SD JSON grabber is installed and appears to
> pull down sensible data - but the next step is a bit grey for me.
> 
> What do I need to do next ?
> Is it best to transfer the XML file to my backend and have
> mythfilldatabase suck that in ? Or do I need to install some MythTV
> stuff on the VM and run it there ? Or something else ?

Is Squeeze old enough that even the perlbrew approach suggested in
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tv.xmltv.devel/11266
will struggle dependencies wise?

Looks like perlbrew itself is not in Squeeze, but maybe it would
install from source?

Anyhow, the person posting their was able to install a newer version of
Perl and the XMLTV deps without disrupting their system Perl install,
which, if it works for you, might be one way out.

Ian.