<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m in the process of building a test system with Xubuntu 18.04.1 and MythTV v29 prior to moving my production systems over.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I first set mythtv up with a 2 tuner HDHR Connect with the latest firmware and I set the video source as Schedule Direct and got things running. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My production system is Ubuntu 16.04 and it uses v29 with XMLTV-SD. So I wanted to test XMLTV-SD on Ubuntu 18.04.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Wiki instructions seem to be dated and/or cover many different options for setup. What I did seemed easier than I remembered.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. I didn’t have to setup a repository for XMLTV. I just sudo apt install xmltv</div><div class="">2. The XMLTV was the latest 0.5.07 version</div><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class="">3. when I ran the command, <span style="font-family: monospace, Courier; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class="">tv_grab_zz_sdjson </span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font face="monospace, Courier" class="">—</font></span><span style="font-family: monospace, Courier; orphans: 2; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class="">info, I got an error about needing to install perl-doc for the command to work. So I did sudo apt perl-doc.</span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class=""><font face="monospace, Courier" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">4. I had to install and configure as my normal user and not ‘mythtv' </span></font></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);" class=""><font face="monospace, Courier" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">5. I thought I understood that I could do the rest of the setup in mythtv-setup, but I could not configure the Video source for XMLTV due to the SD username and password not being setup. So I went back to the command line and did:</span></font></span></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><pre style="font-family: monospace, Courier; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); padding: 1em; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.3em; font-variant-ligatures: normal;" class="">tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --manage-lineups --config-file $HOME/.mythtv/SD.xmltv</pre><div class="">6. Then I went back into mythtv setup and continued the configuration of Video Source and took the defaults and it all worked,</div><div class="">7. I changed the Input connections to the new XMLTV-sd for both tuners and did the scan on the first on only.</div><div class="">8. I found all my channels and it all works.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I thought it was harder back in the day. Not sure if there was a way to configure the SD username and PW from within mythtv-setup, but I couldn’t find it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">9. I did copy the created files from XMLTV from my home directory to mythtv’s</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BTW how do I configure my SD Zipcode to a new zipcode? I did it today on the website, but mythtv-setup video source configuration still shows my old zipcode.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">Jim A</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div>
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