[mythtv-users] XMLTV and Schedules Direct

[Steve Greene]

Progress! I discovered I was pointing to the wrong script in mythtv-setup.
Once I corrected that, I went step by step through the instructions at
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Schedules_Direct_Setup.

I ran mythfilldatabase thusly: "sudo -u mythtv mythfilldatabase". It starts
populating the database, but I notice that I get errors generating the
temporary files for populating the "channels" subfolder for the png
graphics. The owner and group ID's for those folders are not set to
mythtv:mythtv. If I run mythtv-setup again, I notice I'm getting the "no
</tv> tag" error message again. Do the permissions need to be reset for the
subfolders off of /home/mythtv/.mythtv?



Steve Greene
(301) 842-8923
historicity.co
An independent archival professional specializing in still photography,
moving images and recorded sound.


On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 1:43 PM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 May 2021 09:26:47 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >I keep getting the following error when I run mythfilldatabase (as user
> >mythtv):
> >
> >> 2021-05-20 09:23:17.183995 E  XMLTV grabber returned error code 1
> >> 2021-05-20 09:23:17.433454 E  Malformed XML file, missing </tv> element,
> >> at line 1, Premature end of document.
> >>
> >
> >I've Googled discussions in the past on this issue, but they failed to
> >identify what the problem is and what solved it.
> >
> >FWIW, I've run the grabber independently and it runs perfectly. The error
> >looks to be on the Mythtv side.
> >
> >Any insights?
>
> When mythfilldatabase says </tv> is missing "at line 1" as you are
> seeing, that normally means it has read a 0 byte file instead of real
> XMLTV data.  If the  line number is a fairly large number, then it is
> likely reading a truncated XMLTV file.
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