[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct

[Jim Abernathy]

> You also get the message about there being nothing to add if you are
> running mythfilldatabase shortly after a previous run and there are
> only a few new programmes added.  I am not sure how many new
> programmes are needed for you to not get that message.  But if you are
> testing your EPG setup, you will get that message all the time due to
> running it multiple times in succession without time for the source
> database to have any (or many) new programmes added.
> _______________________________________________
So after the latest changes, my Schedules Direct database got updated at 
2am automatically without errors using the XMLTV method.

What I have learned is this:
1.  The wiki is pretty close to right on setting up and using XMLTV, 
(https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV)
2.  The Ubuntu respositories are not up to date for xmltv so get xmltv 
from (https://github.com/XMLTV/xmltv) which includes 
tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite.
3.  If you use XMLTV from the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories you get 0.5.67 
and that doesn't have tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite so if you're sticking 
with 0.5.67 you need to get tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite from 
(https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite)
4.  The dependences for tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite are at minimum:
     libfile-which-perl
     libfile-homedir-perl
     libdatetime-format-sqlite-perl
     libdbd-sqlite2-perl
     liblwp-useragent-determined-perl
5. The way the instructions are on the wiki you will need to do them as 
the same user that mythbackend runs under so xmltv grabber can find the 
config files and sqlite database for the schedules.  In my case, 'mythtv'.
6. It's nice to have 21 days of schedules and the network logos are a 
nice touch.

Another successful conclusion to a project thanks to the folks on this 
mailing list.

Jim A


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