[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct DataDirect replacement service testing

[Tom Dexter]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Robert Eden <rmeden at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 1. Use dd.schedulesdirect.org if you can use a hostname.
>> 2. Use 54.85.117.227 if you have to hard code an address in /etc/hosts.
>>
>> Robert
>>
> Thanks for the clarification.  I can see that the only reference to
> either of the affected host names in the MythTV source appears to be
> the following, so I'm going to try the following patch some time over
> the next few days:
>
> --- libs/libmythtv/datadirect.cpp    2014-10-12 10:54:02.000000000 -0400
> +++ libs/libmythtv/datadirect.cpp    2014-10-12 10:54:44.000000000 -0400
> @@ -555,7 +555,7 @@
>          "/ztvws/ztvws_login/1,1059,TMS01-1,00.html");
>      DataDirectURLs urls1(
>          "Schedules Direct",
> -        "http://webservices.schedulesdirect.tmsdatadirect.com"
> +        "http://dd.schedulesdirect.org"
>          "/schedulesdirect/tvlistings/xtvdService",
>          "http://schedulesdirect.org",
>          "/login/index.php");
>
> ...and will see how that goes...only until there's something official
> available of course.
>
> Thanks again!
> Tom

Today I was able to compile with that patch and it appears to be
working fine.  I have the /etc/hosts lines commented out, and while
running mythfilldatabase, I saw this in "netstat -t":

tcp        0      0 192.168.1.51:42995      ec2-54-236-201-56.:http ESTABLISHED

...which matched the lookup I got from dd.schedulesdirect.org at that
time (54.236.201.56).  For anyone already compiling from source, I'd
say this approach is arguably easier than installing bind etc.

Thanks again.
Tom