[mythtv-users] New Grabber Installation - Help!

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/01/2007 03:57 PM, Rod Roark wrote:
> I've written a new XMLTV grabber that scrapes information from
> directv.com.  It validates properly according to the XMLTV validation
> tool.
>   

Throwing away all your history of recordings and starting from scratch? 
Using the last few years of data isn't worth $5/mo (potentially $20/yr)
to you?

> Now my problem is installing it into my existing MythTV installation,
> KnoppMyth R5F1.  Can someone tell me what the correct procedure is
> for doing this?  I tried renaming my grabber to /usr/bin/tv_grab_cz
> since MythTV seems to know about that one, but with limited success.
>   

The different grabbers that are "built" into MythTV have
grabber-specific code associated with them, so MythTV won't really work
by just changing the name of your grabber.  Instead, you need 0.20.2 or
higher (which provides support for XMLTV capabilities and
tv_find_grabber, thanks to Stuart Morgan) to use your own custom grabber.

Mike