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

[glen]

On Sun, 2022-05-22 at 17:16 -0500, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 5/22/22 17:12, James Abernathy wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 5:59 PM Bill Meek
> > <keemllib at gmail.com <mailto:keemllib at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     On 5/22/22 16:47, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> >      > On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 6:39 PM Ken Mandelberg
> > <km at mathcs.emory.edu <mailto:km at mathcs.emory.edu>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      >>
> >      >> Sun May 22, 6:01 AM. FAILED: XMLTV grabber returned error
> > code 1
> >      >>
> >      >> I've never seen this before. Is  this related?
> >      >>
> >      >
> >      > The SD service was taken offline for a period of time
> >      > of time.  If you run mythfilldatabas with what
> >      > I consider the recommended logging options
> >      > (include general and xmltv, as previously
> >      > mentioned on this list) you would have seen
> >      > the message about the service being offline,
> >      > but otherwise mythfilldatabase does not log
> >      > messages from the grabber itself (there is
> >      > a tradeoff there, as some grabbers are very
> >      > very very noisy, and one does not care about
> >      > the noise if everything goes well, but when
> >      > things go bad, you want to know;  I fall into
> >      > the "if you do not log/measure it, it did not
> >      > happen" camp).
> >      >
> >      > As I understand it, the status of the service
> >      > is being updated on the schedules direct
> >      > forum itself.
> > 
> >     The notice on schedulesdirect.org
> > <http://email.mg.glenb.net/c/eJwljTkOwyAABF9julhc5igo0uQfHIuxhJ0IcKT8Po4iTTOaYpKL2adFks15anLwViUmZVBGeakhA6RdAjwM8sKYoZnP0e-ok6RrxRHmA4MUx7I1BkJoaG64tjRkS0WAjqBWiUyqK2O8JnGf-OOix4J0VvS0NcQxP9tKmts_o4z37exo_Rr89de-bsY02Q>'s home page has changed. It no longer
> > says
> >     the JSON service is down for maintenance.
> > 
> >     I just ran mythfilldatabase and tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite ran to
> > completion.
> > 
> >     -- 
> >     Bill
> > 
> > 
> > It took 8 minutes and then got the same error:
> > XMLTV grabber returned error code 1
> > 2022-05-22 18:10:56.737005 E  Malformed XML file, missing </tv>
> > element, at line 1, Premature end of document.
> 
> 
> Right, it ran, but returned 0 bytes.
> 
fwiw, i had same problems with 0 byte files. i use sdjson not sqlite
version. now i get good results or did last night. i don't use myth, i
have a systemd timer service set up to run a simple script calling
mythfilldatabase daily.

i use arch linux user repo xmltv package and i manually added the one
line to the source that gary b. provided in his pull request.

for just troubleshooting i believe its better to just run the command
from a terminal with a short amount of days and specify output to a
test xml file so you can get more information.