[mythtv-users] DataDirect and time shifting

[Mikhail D'Vane]

Finally solved this one.

I feel like an idiot, but that's ok....

;)

It pays to search the mythtv-dev archives as well as the mythtv-users
archives.  I was pretty sure my problem was due to the fact that
the datadirect service was sourcing listings with UTC timestamps
and my system for some reason was not adjusting (I'm GMT -0700
and my listings were off by 7 hours).

Anyway, there was a post by the developer responding to a
person with the exact same issue as mine.  It seems that CVS
MythTV's datadirect grabber relies on proper setup of the Linux
timezone.  I was pretty sure that I had made the necessary symlink
in /etc when I setup my "testbed" system, but I went to double check....

The symlink to /etc/localtime was missing.

Once I got this set up, the listing times were correct.

My own bug, not CVS MythTV's.

Mik

>From: "Mikhail D'Vane" <mikhaildvane at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DataDirect and time shifting
>Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 07:05:29 +0000
>
>Yep.  Modifying the timezone info in tv_grab_na_dd.conf was a good
>idea... only problem is... I don't have one (or tv_grab_na_dd anywhere
>on my system, for that matter).
>
>If the reader is really within Mythtv, then perhaps this is a bug in CVS?
>
>I first checked out from CVS on the 13th of May.  An update of my
>working source just 15 minutes ago (very late on the 15th), showed a
>number of updates.
>
>I'm building now - perhaps it's been addressed.
>
>Mik
>
>>From: Henk Poley <hpoley at dds.nl>
>>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] DataDirect and time shifting
>>Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 07:46:15 +0200
>>
>>Op zondag 16 mei 2004 06:37, schreef Dan Morphis:
>> > J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>> > > > Actually, you never see the DataDirect listings. You're seeing the
>> > > > XMLTV listings created from the DataDirect listings. So, why am I
>> > > > being so picky about semantics? If one thinks he/she is looking
>> > > > at bad info from DataDirect, he/she will try to change DataDirect
>> > > > (see where I'm going with this?). If one knows the data is
>> > > > actually XMLTV data...
>> > >
>> > >  CVS MythTV doesn't use XMLTV for DataDirect.
>> >
>> > Are you sure about that? the dd grabber is part of the xmltv package.
>>
>>Yes, DataDirect now supplies it's own listing in some other format. MythTV
>>developers implemented their own reader (some would say they "pulled a
>>Microsoft"), instead of writing an XMLTV converter so everybody could use 
>>it
>>via the standard existing interfaces. (AFAIK someone is working on writing
>>the converter)
>>
>>Maybe they can use more of the information this way .. ?
>>
>>	Henk Poley <><
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