[mythtv-users] Really frustrated trying setup MythTV

[Simon Hobson]

Jason Ward wrote:
> Right now, as best as I can tell my back end is not downloading
> schedules from The Radio Times, no idea why, I just see that "error 2"
> was reported.  Although schedules off the air appear to be working fine.

IIRC the Radio Times XML feed is in the process of being replaced with something else. Looking back in my archive I found this, though I've made no changes whatsoever and my grabber is still working :

Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:16:11 +0000
Subject: [xmltv-users] The future of the UK Radio Times data service (tv_grab_uk_rt)
From: Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>
To: Using the xmltv programs <xmltv-users at lists.sourceforge.net>


A heads up for all current UK/Eire XMLTV users (note that no action is
necessary now):

The Radio Times data service (as used by the tv_grab_uk_rt grabber for
several years) is considered deprecated by the new team maintaining it
at metabroadcast [1]. It is quite likely that this service will be
taken down before the BST->GMT transition takes place at the end of
October 2012.

[1]http://metabroadcast.com/


When the Radio Times service is finally turned off, listings for the
UK and Ireland will be available going forwards through the new Atlas
[2] service (developed at metabroadcast). I will soon upload a new
grabber - well before anything happens to the current service - to
allow a gradual transition to this service for current tv_grab_uk_rt
users. I will work to make the transition as smooth as possible for
everyone, maintaining compatibility with current config files and
XMLTV IDs where possible.

[2]http://atlas.metabroadcast.com


The new Atlas service and API [3] is substantially richer than the
current service. It does not suffer from the bi-annual BST changeover
gremlins that have plagued the upstream data (it uses ISO 8601 dates).
It can provide richer listings data and programme metadata, more
channels, and - more importantly - is actively developed and open
source.

[3]http://github.com/atlasapi/atlas/


More details will be posted in due course - in the meantime the
tv_grab_uk_rt grabber will continue to work as normal.


Cheers,
Nick




> I have questions about DVB-T and DVB-T2 tuners in the same backend, does
> the fact that one of the turners sees more channels than the other mean
> that I need to have 2 separate video sources, one for each type of
> tuner?

Yes.
Create one source for the SD only tuner(s), and another source for the HD capable tuner(s).



For your other problems, a lot of that sounds more like issues with the packaging for the Mythbuntu distro rather than Myth itself.