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at 9:32 AM Christopher X. Candreva <<a href="mailto:chris@westnet.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">chris@westnet.com</a>>
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Relatively simple question: Do I understand
correctly that, when I upgrade <br>
my setup to V0.31 , I will need to go through the
manual steps outlined in <br>
<a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Schedules_Direct_Setup" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Schedules_Direct_Setup</a>
to enable the <br>
Schedules Direct XMLTV ? Obtain the grabbers, run
from command line, this <br>
isn't included in the packaging (Fedora / RPM
Fusion) or mythtvsetup as of <br>
yet ?<br>
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There is no judgement intended, I just want to know
how much time to <br>
schedule around the upgrade. Thank you for all the
hard work you do !<br>
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<div>In my opinion, The instructions at the top of the
Mythtv XMLTV page is accurate as to installing the
things needed for XMLTV, certainly for Ubuntu/Debian
based systems. If your Distro doesn't have some old
version of XMLTV available as a package, then you
may have a lot of perl packages that are required to
be installed. Manually installing all of XMLTV from
the git is easy, except if you have to get all those
little Perl pieces together. I'd set aside 30
minutes for all the googling you'll need to do the
find your distro's package for the perl lib you're
missing. Git readme should help.</div>
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<div>Next I'd use tv_grab_xx_sdjson_sqlite. It seems
to be very flexible and for me easy. The time
consuming part is yes/no on each of the channels you
want for your Zipcode. </div>
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<div>THE KEY is to do all the XMLTV setup stuff as
user 'mythtv'</div>
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<div dir="auto">Is it possible to grab lineups from multiple
zipcodes?</div>
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<div dir="auto">I have a couple of channels (Bloomberg, France24
English language news) set up via the HLS recorder. In the
non-XMLTV SD setup, I have a Toronto postal code for the
Toronto/Buffalo OTA listings and a NYC cable zipcode to get
the schedules for the two HLS channels. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Can the XMLTV setup handle that and would I have
to say 'NO' to hundreds of cable channels just to get those
two? In the web interface I was just able to deselect all and
just choose the two I needed. </div>
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<p>Schedules Direct xmltv (json service) allows up to 4 lineups at
any one time, you just need to select which lineup to use for each
Videosource during the grabber configuration.</p>
<p>Note you can select either lineups or channels during
configuration. If using channels you have the choice of which
channels , for tv_grab_zz_sdjson the default is "no" as you step
through (so just CR needed, until you get to a channel you want,
then type yes). If using a lineup you get all channels in that
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</div>I just migrated from schedules direct data direct to the xml grabber, I'm sure it's jsu me but oof what a painful process. If you only have OTA channels its probably manageable but if you have cable like I do along with OTA and have lots of channels its a major pain. What I did was to do most of the setup via the cli and from schedules direct you can generate a report based on your lineup that contains the xml channel IDs. From there you have to modify the IDs to fit the format that is needed by the grabber, I did that in a spreadsheet the copied those to my xml file. </blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The major pain for me was how to get my channels populated with an hdhomerun prime unit since you don't do a scan. Ultimately I specified data direct for this inputs and pulled the channels then switched grabber back to the xml json one. I'm still not sure how to get the channels to fill in if using xml and an hdhomerun prime unit. The wiki does cover everything but there is a lot of ways of doing things, hope it gets easier in the future.</blockquote></div></div></div>