[mythtv-users] UK: tv_grab_uk_atlas swap over fail!

[Paul Gardiner]

On 30/09/2014 18:53, Mike Bibbings wrote:
> On 30/09/14 17:37, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 30/09/2014 13:30, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>> On 30/09/2014 13:14, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>> On 30/09/2014 12:26, Paul Harrison wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30 Sep 2014 11:45, "Paul Gardiner" <lists at glidos.net
>>>>> <mailto:lists at glidos.net>> wrote:
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > I thought it was time I got around to swapping over from
>>>>> tv_grab_uk_rt
>>>>>  > to tv_grab_uk_atlas. All seemed to go well, nice easy set up,
>>>>> except
>>>>>  > it doesn't work :-( and I cannot figure what I've done wrong.
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > I registered and obtained an API key, and ran
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >  tv_grab_uk_atlas --configure
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > That produced $HOME/.xmltv/tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf with the new
>>>>>  > mysterious four letter channel ids.
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > After that, running
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >  tv_grab_uk_atlas --quiet
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > seems to download the channel info. It also seems to pull down
>>>>>  > the file
>>>>> .xmltv/supplement/tv_grab_uk_atlas/tv_grab_uk_atlas.map.channel.conf
>>>>>  > so that it can translate the four letter ids to something like
>>>>>  > the old ones, and the downloaded channel data does seem to mention
>>>>>  > old style ids. I noticed that some of these were slightly
>>>>> different:
>>>>>  > e.g., channel4.co.uk <http://channel4.co.uk> is now channel4.com
>>>>> <http://channel4.com>, so I updated my mythconverg
>>>>>  > channels table with the new values.
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > I then use the script below to fetch:
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > #!/bin/bash
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > TEMPFILE=/tmp/mythfill$$
>>>>>  > tv_grab_uk_atlas --quiet > $TEMPFILE
>>>>>  > mythfilldatabase --update --file --sourceid 1 --xmlfile $TEMPFILE
>>>>>  > mythfilldatabase --update --file --sourceid 2 --xmlfile $TEMPFILE
>>>>>  > mythfilldatabase --update --file --sourceid 3 --xmlfile $TEMPFILE
>>>>>  > rm $TEMPFILE
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > but I get no new data and I have only 11 days worth, which I assume
>>>>>  > is from the last successful tv_grab_uk_rt fetch.
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > I see in the output loads of
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > "Unknown xmltv channel identifier:" even from ones that are clearly
>>>>>  > in myth's channel table. What am I doing wrong? Is there somewhere
>>>>>  > else myth keeps a list of these channels and checks against them?
>>>>>  > I no longer have a Freeview.xmltv file, but I assume that file's
>>>>>  > job is taken over by tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf.
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > Very confused.
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  > Cheers,
>>>>>  >         Paul.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you will have to rename tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf to
>>>>> Freeview.xmltv
>>>>> for Myth to find it.  I assume Freeview is the name you gave to the
>>>>> source in Myth.
>>>>
>>>> That's certainly worth a try. But then if that works what would be
>>>> strange is that either my old or new setup worked because I have
>>>> three sources all with different names, but I've had only the one
>>>> .xmltv file in .mythtv.
>>>>
>>>> Trying it in any case.
>>>
>>> No luck. I tried using tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf as a new Freeview.xmltv
>>> (although I couldn't really see how mythtv could make use the new
>>> four-letter codes it contains) and I tried using my old Freeview.xmltv
>>> file. No luck in either case :-(
>>
>> Actually, maybe this is working. Is atlas 7 days or 14 days? The main
>> reason I've been thinking it was failing was because my number of days
>> of guide data has been stuck on 11. Looking again at the "Unknown id"
>> errors, it's only reporting the ones that aren't in that particular
>> source.
>>
>
> You can check how much data you have in either mythfrontend (System
> Status)  or Mythweb  (Backend Status)

Yeah, that's the problem. I was seeing 11 days yesterday - today
10. On the other hand, mythfilldatabase just reported

  Updated programs: 1755 Unchanged programs: 7426

so it's working to some degree. Still confused.

Paul.