[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct

[Jerry]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
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> On Jan 26, 2018, at 10:41 AM, Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 01/26/2018 10:08 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
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> On 01/26/2018 09:44 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
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> My Mythtv backend uses Schedules Direct for the program guide.  It works
> great, most of the time. I use it for USA OTA ATCS programming. I took the
> defaults when setting it up.  Nothing more than putting in my account info
> for SD.
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> In researching an issue I looked at the wiki on mythfilldatabase and read
> about the use of DataDirect format or XMLTV format.  I don’t know if I care
> but what am I using.  The recommended per the wiki is XMLTV even for
> Schedules Direct.
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> Jim Abernathy
> jfabernathy at gmail.com
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> The XMLTV through SD option gets you three weeks of schedules instead of
> 13 days. It  also supplies season and episode, and gives icons for all
> channels. It is also harder to set up.
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> So it looks like there are some advantages to switching to an XMLTV
> grabber for Schedules Direct. Any recommendations on setup and switching
> other than what is on the Wiki at https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV  ?
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> Jim A
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> I highly recommend you set up a test machine(can be virtual) to run
> through the conversion once.  You will need to update the channel table so
> that the xmltv id looks like this:  I43730.json.schedulesdirect.org  .
> Your current xmltv ids will probably look like this with the legacy
> Schedules direct grabber:  43730
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> The mod mentioned above is documented on the XMLTV page on the mythtv wiki.
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> Once you are happy with the migration on your test system, you can then do
> the same in your production version.
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> I did the conversion about a month ago, and it worked fine.
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> Regards,
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> on Ubuntu 16.04 I just installed xmltv using apt and I got a lot of
> tv_grabber, but not the tv_grab_zz_sdjson ones.  Do I need to install the
> xmltv from the debian repository??
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> Jim A
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You need to clone this Git repo: https://github.com/
garybuhrmaster/tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite

git clone https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite

If you don't have git installed, you'll need to install that as well.

sudo apt-get install git

I had to copy the files from the cloned repo to /usr/bin.  They are then
seen by mythtv-setup.  You could just browse the files on the webpage and
copy and paste the content yourself but you lose the ability to easily
update when Gary updates his code.

If you're in the repo you've cloned, you can just

git pull

and get the new content when it comes down the pike.  There is a hell of a
lot of detail to Git but that will get you the files you need.
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