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

[Paul Gardiner]

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.

Paul.