<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:59 PM Jack McGee <<a href="mailto:jack@greendesk.net" target="_blank">jack@greendesk.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">OK, I don't understand.<br>
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mythtvsetup on backend:<br>
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I deleted the VideoSource. Created a new one.<br>
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I go into Input connections, set each to that new source, and click <br>
fetch listings from lisitings source.<br>
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Says it may take a long time. how much time. I never see any changes in <br>
that screen after I click that.<br>
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On 3/26/20 1:36 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:<br>
> Did you follow the process in the wiki? <br>
> (<a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Converting_from_DataDirect_to_XMLTV" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Converting_from_DataDirect_to_XMLTV</a>)<br>
> You need to either manually update the xmltvids in each channel or <br>
> delete the channels and add them back with mythfilldatabase.<br>
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> On 3/26/20 2:12 PM, Jack McGee wrote:<br>
>> I tried to convert to xmltv a week or two ago. This is US, <br>
>> SchedulesDirect, all ATSC with HDHomerun. Mythv .29<br>
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>> Mythfilldatabase is having problems.<br>
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>><br><br></blockquote><div>Let me give you the steps I follow:</div><div><br></div><div>Switch to user 'mythtv' by: sudo su mythtv</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>Follow the help on the mythtv xmltv wiki page at <a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Setup_with_tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Setup_with_tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Run the commands: <br>tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --manage-lineups --config-file $HOME/.mythtv/SD.xmltv<br>Enter login info for Schedules Direct<br>Enter 4 to initialize the database<br>Take the defaults and exit.<br>Run the command:<br>tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --configure --config-file $HOME/.mythtv/SD.xmltv<br>Answer yes to the lineup you want to use and no to the others, then take the defaults and exit<br>Run the commands:<br>tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --days 0 --config-file $HOME/.mythtv/SD.xmltv<br>tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --manage-lineups --config-file $HOME/.mythtv/SD.xmltv<br>Accept the default for my lineup and select option 5, 1, then 5.<br>Now go through and pick yes or no on the channels you want data on.<br>You may have to do the option 5 again if you missed a channel or selected wrong,<br>exit<br>Switch back to user '<user>' by :exit<br>Stop Mythtv backend by: sudo systemctl stop mythtv-backend<br>Run the mythtv-setup from the Applications Menu<br>In General -> Job Queue (Backend-Specific) -> I deselected Allow commercial Jobs and Allow transcoding jobs. (not needed for me)<br>In General -> Program Schedule Downloading Options -> Automatically update program listings -> Guide Data Program execution start/end I set them to 2 and 5<br>In General -> Program Schedule Downloading Options -> Automatically update program listings -> Run guide data program at time suggested by the grabber I deselected.<br>On Capture cards deselect the "Use HD HomeRun for Active EIT scan" in Recording Options for any tuner you had it enabled on.<br>In Video Sources Delete all video sources. Then add a New video source.<br>In the Video Source make the Video source name match what was done in XMLTV setup which is "SD"<br>Select Listing grabber to be Multinational (Schedules Direct JSON web services with SQLite...<br>Save and exit.<br>In Input Connections go through each and select Video Source "SD" and only do the scan in the first Input Connection.<br>In Channel Editor you may need to revisit any changes done before as the rescan will have undone them.<br>Exit<br>Restart mythtv-backend with: sudo systemctl start mythtv-backend<br>Switch back to user 'mythtv' and run "mythfilldatabase"<br>Once mythfilldatabase completes, exit back to user '<user>'</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">These work for me everytime. I have a better formated version on a blog for doing this on a Rpi4. Skip to the part for XMLTV.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://mythtv-rp4.blogspot.com/2019/12/installing-mythtv-on-raspberry-pi-4.html">https://mythtv-rp4.blogspot.com/2019/12/installing-mythtv-on-raspberry-pi-4.html</a><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Jim A</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>
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