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

[Mike Bibbings]

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.
>
> Paul.
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Atlas is upto 14 days, can vary by channel.

You can check how much data you have in either mythfrontend (System 
Status)  or Mythweb  (Backend Status)

Mike