[mythtv-users] fixes/31 news feed

[Paul Harrison]

On 10/10/2020 16:24, Paul Harrison wrote:

> On 10/10/2020 09:04, lists at arewethere.net wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> In the last couple of days I've noticed a problem with mythnews
>> not being able to retrieve the fixes/31 xml news feed [1].
>> I can retrieve the file with wget or lynx, so the URL is ok.
>> In the frontend log I get these messages
>>
>> E CoreContext mythuitext.cpp:1696 (Finalize) 'title' (news-ui.xml:65):
>> <scroll> and <cutdown> are not combinable.
>
>
> Yeah this is an error with the theme and is harmless. It will just 
> ignore any <cutdown> specified because it doesn't make sense to use it 
> if the text is scrolling. It's not the problem here though.
>

This should be fixed in both the master and fixes/31 version of the 
MythBuntu theme.


>> E CoreContext newssite.cpp:184 (customEvent) NewsSite: HTTP Connection
>> Error#012#011#011#011Explanation: 0: Unknown error
>>
>> The first is probably from the theme (mythbuntu) and irrelevant here.
>>
>> Is anyone else seeing this?
>> Regards
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/commits/fixes/31.atom
>
>
> I can reproduce this as well using master. Very strange it seemed to 
> work once then always fails after that. The error code is zero so it 
> can only mean we are receiving a zero length reply.

This seems to be intermittent. Sometimes it updates sometimes it 
doesn't. No idea why!  You should be able to force a refresh by pressing 
'I' on the MythNews screen and most feeds update OK but that one is 
stubborn and more often than not fails to update. You can also try 
removing the downloaded xml data file from ~/.mythtv/MythNews/ , look 
for a file with the same site name you used in MythNews, to force it to 
update.


Paul H.