[mythtv-users] Different mythfilldatabase commands for different sources

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Ian,

Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 7:33:30 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hoi Ian,
>>>
>>> Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 12:09:41 PM, you wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> >> [snip]
>>> >>
>>> >> > There won't be any duplicates. As stated SD is for my North American
>>> >> > channels and I just want listings for one lone channel from Britain
>>> via
>>> >> > HLS. It should be an interesting exercise. I wonder if I have to
>>> adjust
>>> >> the
>>> >> > time zone for the UK listing or it might be in UTC.
>>> >>
>>> >> That means it is on a separate source. You can set-up the grabber
>>> >> through the source and let it run automatically.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> > Might be one of those "don't configure after a sleepless night" issues
>>> but
>>> > a few questions:
>>>
>>> > 1) after using mythtv-setup to configure the atlas grabber, it it exits
>>> > with a status 0 after selecting the channels in the feed. What is
>>> status 0?
>>>
>>> > 2) mythtv-setup creates the .xmltv directory under /home/ian shouldn't
>>> it
>>> > be under /home/mythtv?
>>>
>>> > 3) if it should be my /home/ian directory, should I be changing
>>> permissions?
>>>
>>> > Thanks.
>>>
>>> 1 Exitstatus by default means OK
>>>
>>
>>> 2 It creates the .xmltv directory in the current home directory, so
>>> you should run it as user mythtv. Very probable you could copy over
>>> the directory and content to the mythtv home directory
>>> (/home/mythtv/.xmltv or /var/lib/mythtv/.xmltv under mythbuntu) and
>>> change ownership (chown -R mythtv.mythtv /home/mythtv/.xmltv)
>>>
>>>
>> I don't think the exit was okay here. After it exits with exit status 0, I
>> looked in the ,xmltv directory and no tv_grab_uk_atlas.conf had been
>> created and the atlas api key does not appear to have been stored anywhere.
>>
>>
>>
> I was able to manually configure the grabber by running "tv_grab_uk_atlas
> --configure" from the command line.

> Moved it to /home/mythtv

> ran mythfilldatabase as the mythtv user. First it grabbed my Schedules
> Direct info for the North American source.

> It then ran the HLS source but errored out.

> 1) It said it was looking for a config file called HLS.xmltv. I don't know
> where that's specified or how to change it to the grabber's config file.

> 2) If I continue to let mythfilldatabase run at a time specified by
> Schedules Direct, how do I specify the --refresh 0-99 asked for in the wiki
> page for myth and metabroadcast? Do I have to make a cron entry for a
> manual run for the HLS source?

If you let Mythtv run mythfilldatabase it uses the --config-file
option on the grabber to look in <home>/.mythtv for the configfile
named <source-name>.conf.
So you have to copy the config file in <home>/.xmltv to <home>/.mythtv
renaming it to HLS.conf.
If you had used the Configure button in MythTV-Setup it would have
been placed there. You can also run the grabber with: `--configure
--config-file /var/lib/mythtv/.mythtv/HLS.conf` to place it there.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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