[mythtv-users] status of tv_grab_sn?

[Per Åge Sørvik]

Dan Lawesson wrote:

> I am greatly impressed by MythTV, which has the WAF required for 
> motivating use of an htpc instead of a regular dvd (and vcr for 
> tuning) together with my newly purchased projector.
>
> The TV-listings greatly improves the functionality, but unfortunately 
> xmltv does not come with a grabber for Sweden any more. I didn't find 
> any information regarding the status of tv_grab_sn.
>
> Since I didn't get any reply after asking xmltv-developers I skipped 
> installing xmltv altogether (and I can therefore still truthfully and 
> not without pride claim that my emacs never has been exposed to any 
> Perl scripts ). Instead I studied the xmltv DTD and mythfilldatabase 
> source code to figure out what tv_grab_sn is supposed to output and 
> what kind of switches it is supposed to parse.
>
> The resulting quick-and-dirty reverse-engineered Python script (that 
> fetches data from www.dagenstv.com) works for me.
>
> Would anyone be interested in using my script, or did I just duplicate 
> some work done by someone else? If my script is to be used by someone 
> else, I will have to upgrade it from unreadable-kludge version to at 
> least some alpha-at-least-partly-configurable version.

I would like a copy very much.

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peraage