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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>Hmmm... However, the RT site provides the data (as far as I can see) as </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>14 day "chunks" for each channel. There's no easy way to grab single </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">>days from the data which they are (very graciously) providing.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Yep that's right. Instead of asking mythfilldatabase to grab the info from RT I use tv_grab_uk_rt directly like this:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">tv_grab_uk_rt --configfile channels.xmltv --output data.xml --days 1</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This results is 14 days of data, but it means that it's only downloaded once. If you don't specify the --days 1 flag then you end up with the default of 14 days which means that you download 14 days of data 14 times.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It's pretty easy to get it into Myth :</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mythfilldatabase --file 1 0 data.xml</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The xmltv config file is just a list of channels, I think Myth auto generates one in ~mythtv/.mythtv and names is sourceid.xml. Forgive me if I have that slightly wrong since I'm at work away from my servers.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">You could also use bleb (tv_grab_uk_bleb). I use a mixture of the 2 (bleb does some channels RT does not - BBC3 BBC4 and Radio) and hand built xmltv config files for each. I jut have a script that wraps it all together and run it from cron on the B/E.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Initially I was a bit upset with RT for pushing 14 days of data in a 1 day file but then as you point out, they're doing this for free so I think I can live with it.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">HTH</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Paul</FONT>
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