[mythtv-users] Radio Times XML Feed

[Paul Harrison]

On 08/10/14 17:34, mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
>
> Quoting Adam Skinner <kingmoffa at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi ,
>>
>> With the impending launch of ITV Be channel in the UK , for the WAF I 
>> need
>> to get myself some guide data for this channel. Yes , Im aware the 
>> content
>> of this channel may be terrible.
>>
>> I'm currently using the radio times XML feed  (tv_grab_uk_rt)  - but 
>> I dont
>> think this new channel has any data supplied by this method. Running
>>
>> tv_grab_uk_rt --list-channels
>>
>> and it doesn't show.
>>
>> Please could someone point me in the right direction? Im guessing I 
>> need to
>> change data source or wait for RT to update.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>
> You need the atlas grabber. It already has program listings for ITVBe 
> and it is terrible. You don't need a guide for this type of channel as 
> you are meant to switch your brain off before watching.
>
> Cheers,
> Tim.
>

The RT feed will be depreciated on 1st November and shutdown in January 
2015. There is still a possibility the radio times grabber will be 
updated to use the new API so the switch would be seemless but until 
then to get data for the new channels you have to use the atlas grabber.

I switched  recently to use the Atlas grabber which seems to be working OK.

These are few (possibly incomplete) notes I made that hopefully will 
help anyone to try the new grabber.

1. get a key - click 'get your free api key' on 
http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/#apiExplorer (you need a twitter, google 
or github login)
2. create app once logged in - the web site often fails so be patient 
pressing back often works
3. get latest stable xmltv 0.5.65 or later
4. start mythtv-setup
5. Select a Video Source and change the grabber to 'UK - Atlas 
(atla.metabroadcast.com) (xmltv)'
6. Press the configure button and follow the instructions - this will 
ask for your key and what region/channels you want and then create the 
config file the grabber will use to get the correct channels for the source
7. Some of the id's may need changing in the channel editor for example 
all the itv1

bbc2.bbc.co.uk         -> england.bbc2.bbc.co.uk // or use one of the 
other regions scotland/wales etc
granada.itv1.itv.co.uk -> granada.itv1.itv.com   // same is true for all 
the itv1 regions

8. If you want to test you can remove all the existing programs from the 
program table by running this query in mysql

truncate program;

9. Now run mythfilldatabase to grab the new data

10. mythfilldatabase will appear to fail with an error when using the 
early versions of the Atlas grabber.
That's because the grabber return 1 to indicate an error because it 
can't find a supplemental file 
tv_grab_uk_atlas/tv_grab_uk_atlas.user.map.conf. Later versions ignore 
the error.

11. the atlas grabber doesn't support "allatonce" like the old radio 
times grabber so to get similar behaviour you need to add the '--refresh 
0-99' to mythfilldatabase

Paul H.