[mythtv-users] XMLTV failure after update today

[Tom Dexter]

On 4/20/20, Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/20/20 9:54 AM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>> On 4/20/20, Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 4/19/20 2:05 PM, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:20 PM Robert Eden <rmeden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> https://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3065
>>>> Yes, it's going longer than expected; I will perform maintenance more
>>>> often, to make the outages shorter.
>>>>
>>>> There is a system messages element on the JSON service which indicated
>>>> that servers were going to be down for maintenance. I don't know if
>>>> those are then put into the XML.
>>> My overnight runs failed and I ran mythfilldatabase this morning USA EDT
>>> and it seemed to be running because it took 6 minutes, but it returned
>>> an error 1. The SD site says service is restored, but ...
>>>
>>> mythtv at mythbuntu:~$ mythfilldatabase
>> My scheduled one failed at 9:00 AM EDT today. I just tried to run it
>> manually and the grabber took about 3-1/2 minutes to get a 255 status:
>>
>> 2020-04-20 09:44:04.855121 I  Grabber has capabilities: baseline
>> manualconfig preferredmethod
>> 2020-04-20 09:44:05.895130 I  Grabber prefers method: allatonce
>> 2020-04-20 09:44:05.896449 I  XMLTV config file is:
>> /home/mythtv/.mythtv/Antenna.xmltv
>> 2020-04-20 09:47:25.345722 E  FillData: XMLTV grabber returned error code
>> 255
>> 2020-04-20 09:47:25.603513 E  Error in 1:1: unexpected end of file
>> 2020-04-20 09:47:25.645228 I  No programs found in data.
>>
>> I don't see any more notice on the schedulesdirect.org main page any
>> more, but does it expressly say somewhere that it's restored? I'm not
>> seeing that.
>>
>> Tom
>
> What I see is on their forum:
>
> https://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3065
>
> note the last line:
>
> 2020-04-20 @ 04:25. Service restored.
>
> Jim A

Yes...just found that myself. I posted to the forum to see if anyone
else was having issues. Interestingly though I just noticed that the
schedulesdirect.org main page has a big yellow notice (that I don't
think was there this morning?) about known service issues with the the
SD_JSON server.

Tom