[mythtv-users] Using xmltv grabber in the uk?

[mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk]

Quoting Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>:
> At the moment I'm just using all-Debian stock packages for  
> everything. In theory that means it should all work together, right?
>
> I did a clean install of the latest stable (Wheezy) and installed  
> mysql, mythtv and xmltv from the multimedia repo. Then I restored  
> from my database backup and ran mythtv-setup to let it upgrade the  
> schema. Everything worked.

That's not quite the same thing as 'all-Debian stock packages'. I  
ditched the deb-multimedia repo (nothing personal, just wanted to use  
a git copy of mythtv-fixes). I don't know what is in your versions of  
xmltv and mysql.


> But... when I got into mythtv-setup none of the tuner cards is  
> there. The sources are all there but the transport table is empty.  
> To fill the transport table I have to rescan, which is a pain  
> because it will trample over the channel table as well. As some  
> channels have changed, I don't mind that so much.

Sounds like something went wrong with the database backup or restore,  
have you looked through the backup sql to see if the transport table  
is there?

> But, once I have rescanned, I need to know the xmltvids to use to  
> ensure the schedules update properly. The version of tv_grab_uk_rt  
> in stable apparently has new logic which won't allow me to find  
> these out easily.

They should be in ~mythtv/.xmltv/supplement/tv_grab_uk_rt/channel_ids  
which is updated every time you run tv_grab_uk_rt, or just go direct  
to http://supplement.xmltv.org/tv_grab_uk_rt/channel_ids

> (Oh. And Terra is /terrible/ as a default theme. I had difficulty  
> finding out which field was currently selected. To change the theme,  
> I have to run the front end, and on a headless backend box that  
> isn't straightforward.)

Agreed.

Cheers,
Tim.