[mythtv-users] Australian XMLTV grabbers

[William Uther]

Hi,
   Argh - stupid typo.  Fixed now.

   Anyway, even with that typo, it should still have created the default 
config file.  You'll need to edit that by hand to add your username and 
password for the OzTiVo site.  You'll also need to edit the channel 
list to include the channels you want to grab.

e.g. the prototype config file contains:

channels = (('ABC-NSW','ABC Digital'),('Nine-Syd','Nine Digital'), \
			('SBS-NSW','SBS Digital'),('Seven-Syd','Seven 
Digital'),('Ten-NSW','Ten Digital'))
authinfo.add_password(realm, 'minnie.tuhs.org', 'MyCamelCaseName', 
'mypassword')

You need to replace MyCamelCaseName with your username, mypassword with 
your password.

The channels are a list of pairs.
   - The first entry in the pair is the name that OzTiVo uses for the 
channel.  This is also the name that gets passed to Myth as the XMLTV 
identifier (e.g. for d1 this would have been something like 
'freesd.Sydney.7.d1.com.au').  You'll need to alter all your channels 
settings to use these OzTiVo names instead of the d1 or ninemsn ones.
   - The second entry in each pair is the XMLTV display name.  I think 
this is currently ignored by myth if you're using DVB.  In the longer 
term, I'd like this to match up with the DVB channel names.  I want to 
modify Myth so that it can use these names to automatically set the 
XMLTV identifier in future.

Oh, one other thing... when mythfilldatabase calls tv_grab_au, it 
supplies a --config-file argument.  You'll need to fix that config 
file.  From memory that config file is ~/.mythtv/antenna.conf where 
'antenna' is the name you used in mythtv-setup.

Cheers,

Will       :-}

P.S.  I hope you don't mind that I included the MythTV user's list in 
this reply in case others have the same minor difficulty.

On 11/04/2005, at 9:35 AM, Berry, David wrote:

>
> Hi Will
>
> Having some troubles with running your new grabber:
>
> [mythtv at mythBox mythtv]$ ./tv_grab_au_tuhs --configure
> Resetting config file to default:
> /home/mythtv/.xmltv/tv_grab_au_tuhs.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./tv_grab_au_tuhs", line 267, in ?
>     main()
>   File "./tv_grab_au_tuhs", line 248, in main
>     exit(0)
> TypeError: 'str' object is not callable
> [mythtv at mythBox mythtv]$
>
> I haven't registered on the site yet - does that need to be done before
> even running the script?
>
> Thanks
> David.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of William Uther
> Sent: Sunday, 10 April 2005 1:26 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Australian XMLTV grabbers
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just put up a web page describing the various Australian XMLTV
> grabbers (that I know about) here:
>
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/
>
> Comments are welcome.  The reason for this page is that I've just
> finished a new grabber (WARNING: untested as yet).  It is available
> from that page.
>
> The new grabber uses the Australian Community-based TV Guide data at
> minnie.tuhs.org.  More information is available at the page above.
> Basically, this is hand-collected guide data put together by the
> Australian TiVo community.  I don't yet know how reliable this guide is
> compared with d1, but if it hasn't been entered, you're encouraged to
> fix that yourself :).  This guide doesn't have the copyright issues
> associated with the ninemsn grabber.
>
--
Dr William Uther                           National ICT Australia
Phone: +61 2 9385 6357               Computer Science and Engineering
Email: willu at cse.unsw.edu.au          University of New South Wales
Web: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/     Sydney, Australia