[mythtv-users] Understanding Schedules Direct change in V0.31

[Ian Evans]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 10:29 AM Mike Bibbings, <mike.bibbings at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 02/04/2020 15:01, Ian Evans wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 9:48 AM James Abernathy, <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM Christopher X. Candreva <chris at westnet.com>
>> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Relatively simple question: Do I understand correctly that, when I
>>> upgrade
>>> my setup to V0.31 , I will need to go through the manual steps outlined
>>> in
>>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Schedules_Direct_Setup to enable the
>>> Schedules Direct XMLTV ? Obtain the grabbers, run from command line,
>>> this
>>> isn't included in the packaging (Fedora / RPM Fusion) or mythtvsetup as
>>> of
>>> yet ?
>>>
>>> There is no judgement intended, I just want to know how much time to
>>> schedule around the upgrade. Thank you for all the hard work you do !
>>>
>>>
>> In my opinion, The instructions at the top of the Mythtv XMLTV page is
>> accurate as to installing the things needed for XMLTV, certainly for
>> Ubuntu/Debian based systems. If your Distro doesn't have some old version
>> of XMLTV available as a package, then you may have a lot of perl packages
>> that are required to be installed. Manually installing all of XMLTV from
>> the git is easy, except if you have to get all those little Perl pieces
>> together.  I'd set aside 30 minutes for all the googling you'll need to do
>> the find your distro's package for the perl lib you're missing. Git readme
>> should help.
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>> Next I'd use tv_grab_xx_sdjson_sqlite.  It seems to be very flexible and
>> for me easy.  The time consuming part is yes/no on each of the channels you
>> want for your Zipcode.
>>
>> THE KEY is to do all the XMLTV setup stuff as user 'mythtv'
>>
>> Jim A
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> Is it possible to grab lineups from multiple zipcodes?
>
> I have a couple of channels (Bloomberg, France24 English language news)
> set up via the HLS recorder. In the non-XMLTV SD setup, I have a Toronto
> postal code for the Toronto/Buffalo OTA listings and a NYC cable zipcode to
> get the schedules for the two HLS channels.
>
> Can the XMLTV setup handle that and would I have to say 'NO' to hundreds
> of cable channels just to get those two? In the web interface I was just
> able to deselect all and just choose the two I needed.
>
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>> Schedules Direct xmltv (json service) allows up to 4 lineups  at any one
> time, you just need to select which lineup to use for each Videosource
> during the grabber configuration.
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> Note you can select either lineups or channels during configuration. If
> using channels you have the choice of which channels , for
> tv_grab_zz_sdjson the default is "no" as you step through (so just CR
> needed, until you get to a channel you want, then type yes). If using a
> lineup you get all channels in that lineup.
>

Good to know. Thanks.

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