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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/26/2018 09:44 AM,
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:2B1F8497-F7D3-47C9-9E43-A6A0A1705534@gmail.com" class="">My 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 Direct.</div>
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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
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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" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV</a>
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<div class="">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="" moz-do-not-send="true">I43730.json.schedulesdirect.org</a> .
Your current xmltv ids will probably look like this with the
legacy Schedules direct grabber: 43730</div>
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<div class="">The mod mentioned above is documented on the XMLTV page on
the mythtv wiki.</div>
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<div class="">Once you are happy with the migration on your test system,
you can then do the same in your production version.</div>
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<div class="">I did the conversion about a month ago, and it worked fine.</div>
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on Ubuntu 16.04 I just installed xmltv using apt and I got a lot of
tv_grabber, but not the tv_grab_zz_sdjson ones. Do I need to
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<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I used tv_grab_sdjson. I think the ones with the zz, or 2 letter country code are no longer used. It should be in the ubuntu xmltv package</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>