[mythtv-users] American EPG Data Provider Found?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, July 27, 2007 3:24 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 07/26/2007 07:30 PM, Brian Steele wrote:
>>
>> I recall a dev saying early on in the discussion when Zap2it first
>> announced they were stopping their service that a solution to this
>> problem would most likely go through XMLTV
>
> OK, but if that's the case, 0.20-fixes just got the support for using
> tv_find_grabbers (which would allow using XMLTV grabbers without
> compiled-in support for those grabbers) 2 weeks ago.  Since
> tv_grab_na_sd didn't exist before the tv_find_grabbers support was added
> (and, doesn't exist today--at least not "in the wild"), Myth 0.20-fixes
> doesn't have compiled-in support for tv_grab_na_sd, so using that
> grabber will required tv_find_grabbers support.

myth has supported xmltv by running mythfilldatabase for ages though. My
cron script is


#!/bin/bash
cd /home/mythtv/epg
/usr/bin/wget http://path_to/epg/listings.xml.gz
/bin/gunzip -f listings.xml.gz
/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --update --file 2 -1 listings.xml

The wget/unzip lines can be substituted for any commands that leave an
xmltv formatted file called listings.xml

So I am not sure why there is a fuss about getting a new version to use an
arbitrary xmltv grabber. I assume all the update does is allow a nice
place in the setup gui to specify the appropriate script.

>
>>  and therefore require no
>> changes to Myth itself.
>
> True--if you are running a version of Myth that has already been changed
> to support it...  (I.e. one built from 0.20-fixes from within the last 2
> weeks.)
>
>>   You would just have to install an up-to-date
>> XMLTV that knows how to talk to Schedules Direct and tell Myth to use
>> it.
>
> And, in the case of the OP--who's still running 0.18.1--an update will
> be necessary unless he "fakes" it as I previously described (or compiles
> in support for a new grabber--but doing so rather than upgrading would
> be crazy).
>
> Mike
>

-- 
Nick Rout