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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/26/2018 09:44 AM, James
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Mythtv backend uses Schedules Direct for the program guide. It
works great, most of the time. I use it for USA OTA ATCS
programming. I took the defaults when setting it up. Nothing
more than putting in my account info for SD.
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<div class="">In researching an issue I looked at the wiki on
mythfilldatabase and read about the use of DataDirect format
or XMLTV format. I don’t know if I care but what am I using.
The recommended per the wiki is XMLTV even for Schedules
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The XMLTV through SD option gets you three weeks of schedules
instead of 13 days. It also supplies season and episode, and
gives icons for all channels. It is also harder to set up.<br class="">
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So it looks like there are some advantages to switching to an XMLTV
grabber for Schedules Direct. Any recommendations on setup and
switching other than what is on the Wiki at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV</a> ?<br class="">
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<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I highly recommend you set up a test machine(can be virtual) to run through the conversion once. You will need to update the channel table so that the xmltv id looks like this: <a href="http://I43730.json.schedulesdirect.org" class="">I43730.json.schedulesdirect.org</a> . Your current xmltv ids will probably look like this with the legacy Schedules direct grabber: 43730</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The mod mentioned above is documented on the XMLTV page on the mythtv wiki.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Once you are happy with the migration on your test system, you can then do the same in your production version.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I did the conversion about a month ago, and it worked fine.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards,</div><br class=""></body></html>