[mythtv-users] xmltv and atlas grabber

Mike Bibbings mike.bibbings at gmail.com
Thu May 19 15:25:22 UTC 2016


On 19/05/16 15:50, Thomas Boehm wrote:
> On 18/05/16 21:16, John P Poet wrote:
>> http://snapshot.xmltv.org/  has a new XMLTV grabber for Schedules Direct
>> called tv_grab_sd_json.  I tried it last night and seems to work well.
>> I am using it for North America, but Schedules Direct does have data for
>> other parts of the world.
>>
>> I am on Fedora, and installing XMLTV from that tar was non trivial (it
>> wanted to install into a different directory structure than the other
>> perl packages).  I ended up installing the xmltv package, and then just
>> copying tv_grab_sd_json into place to use it.
> I just installed the current snapshot and playing with it in a VM. You
> just need to read the README and install the required perl modules. In
> Ubuntu the packages are called libxml-parser-perl for XML::Parser and so
> on. I always use Synaptics to find the right package. For
> tv_grab_sd_json I had to install XML::LibXML additionally. It was not
> mentioned in the README and the installation succeeded without it, but
> there was an error message when configuring the grabber.
>
> Now I'm fighting with the xmltvid's. Is there somewhere a translation
> available between the station ID's and the channel name? The xmltvid's
> get populated if the callsign matches the name from SD, for all other
> ones I have to assign them manually.
>
> I took screenshots from the terminal window when I configured the
> channels and compare them now with the resulting tv_grab_sd_json.conf.
> It's a bit tedious...
>
> Before I switch the grabber in my live system, is there anything which
> needs to be done? Does the duplicate matching work with the previous
> recordings? How about backing up the program guide in case something
> doesn't work as expected?
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I also am having the xmltvid issue.

I ran the tv_grab_sd_json manually with --config-file <your-config> 
--output <file-name> --days 1

The xmltvids together with the display names are given at the beginning 
of the file, but its tedious. I hope someone has/finds a better way.


Mike



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