[mythtv-users] V31, switching to xmltv on fedora

[Richard Shaw]

To perhaps better answer your question, I switched some time ago and it
works, but it may or may not be an ideal setup. Hopefully someone here will
comment.

It would be best to login as the mythtv user to perform these steps. As it
is a service it does not have a shell by default, so:

# su -l mythtv -s /bin/bash

Start here since xmltv should be already installed:

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Command_Line_Setup

mythfilldatabase looks at $HOME not MYTHCONFDIR as far as I can tell so you
need to create the files in the appropriate directory, either /etc/mythtv
or /usr/lib/mythtv/.mythtv depending on where your home directory is set
per the previous email, adjust accordingly below.

Replace instances of "$HOME/.mythtv/YYYY.xmltv" with
"/etc/mythtv/YYYY.xmltv"

Once you create your config file. You go into mythtv setup "Video Sources".
Hopefully someone here will pipe in but it's probably best to do a "Delete
all sources" an and create a new one.

Inside, the first config option "Video Source Name" should be the exact
name of your YYYY.xmltv without the .xmltv extension. In my case I have one
called "OTA"

For listings grabber I selected the "Multinational (Schedules Direct JSON
web services with SQLite DB)" and saved my configuration.

Now you should try running mythfilldatabase as the mythtv user and confirm
it works.

Thanks,
Richard
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