[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct JSON service changes 2022-05-20

[Tom Dexter]

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 1:32 PM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/22/22 12:25, Tom Dexter wrote:
> > On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 1:06 PM Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 12:18 PM Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Personally I have no idea what to do at this point. I'm not even going
> >>> to apply the patch for now because I don't want to totally scramble
> >>> the schedule I have. It sounds like switching to the sqlite grabber
> >>> may be the way to go, but when I revisited that on the MythTV XMLTV
> >>> wiki I remembered why I didn't go with that in the first place. It
> >>> seems like a total nightmare to set up.
> >>>
> >> Assuming I decide to switch to the sqlite grabber, two quick questions
> >> for anyone who's using it:
> >>
> >> When it prompts for which channels to enable, does it show the xmltvid
> >> for the channel in that information?
> >>
> >> More importantly, does the sqlite grabber associate the channels in
> >> the MythTV database based on their xmltvid fields as the zz_sdjson
> >> does?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> >> Tom
> >
> > AS to my second question, I see this on the MythTV XMLTV wiki:
> >
> > "When you switch, the xmltvid's for the existing channels will change.
> > Using this grabber the xmltvid has the format
> > I11460.json.schedulesdirect.org. Using DD the xmltvid's are a numeric
> > value."
> >
> > Does anyone know if the numeric portion of that xmltvid is by some
> > chance the same number as the old numeric ID? I have my zz_sdjson
> > grabber configured to use mythtv format for channel-id-format so
> > currently all my channels have the numeric format.
>
> Mine were the same.
>
> --
> Bill
Thanks! That makes it something I can change with SQL.

Tom