[mythtv-users] Tv_grab_au --god help me.

[Chris Henderson]

On 5/2/06, Chris Henderson <jchendo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Phill,
>
> It is a bit hard to find. On the front oztivo Twiki page at
> > http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view, down the bottom-left there is a
> > link called "TWiki Registration". Follow it to find the registration
> > page. I've mentioned to the web site folks there that it's a bit tto
> > difficult for people to find.
> >
> > > You have setup some varialbles at the top of the shell script for each
> > type
> > > of grabbers. I was wondering if you can set some more/different ones
> > for sed
> > > comands etc like,
> > >
> > > City > > >
> > > Format > > >
> > > and so on.
> > > I am guessing that this would make it easier to mod the script for
> > your
> > > state and it could then be indroduced into the package with the DVB
> > OWNER's
> > > check as default. (and that should take some load off the tv station
> > > servers, and then might not change it as much).
> >
> > Yes - that's certainly do-able.
>
>
> Yes it is i have got the variables to work for things like $HOMEDIR,
> $LISTINGSDIR, $STATE, $TOWN etc.
> But i am having trouble with the SED command. like you explained the
> '.'(dot) has to be escaped by a \ for it to work. the $STATE is now seen as
> the thing to search for not a variable.
> I know in other programming lang the ' can be used as an escape. it was
> late last night and i have not been able to figure it out yet, but i am
> pritty sure it can be done.
>
>
>
>
> > And the final one, although i doubt this will happen.
> > > To make the file go to the next option, say from dvb owners to D1 when
> > it
> > > errors. This is going to make the script a bit complex and i am not
> > sure of
> > > the need. Just a thought.
> >
> > Would be nice but I don't have the time to do it at the moment. It
> > would be easy enough if it was just a matter of checking if the file
> > contains listings or not, but the usual problem is that it contains
> > errors in the listings which is much harder to trap.
>
>
> Prob not worth it then, a round robin approch might  take the load off
> the  servers and slow the change of the websites etc.
>
>
> CHris
>
> Phill can you please contact me off list, I have got a working copy of the
variable version of your script.

CH
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