[mythtv-users] Understanding Schedules Direct change in V0.31

[Jim Abernathy]

On 4/2/20 10:01 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 9:48 AM James Abernathy, <jfabernathy at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jfabernathy at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM Christopher X. Candreva
>     <chris at westnet.com <mailto:chris at westnet.com>> wrote:
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>         Relatively simple question: Do I understand correctly that,
>         when I upgrade
>         my setup to V0.31 , I will need to go through the manual steps
>         outlined in
>         https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Schedules_Direct_Setup to
>         enable the
>         Schedules Direct XMLTV ? Obtain the grabbers, run from command
>         line, this
>         isn't included in the packaging (Fedora / RPM Fusion) or
>         mythtvsetup as of
>         yet ?
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>         There is no judgement intended, I just want to know how much
>         time to
>         schedule around the upgrade. Thank you for all the hard work
>         you do !
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>     In my opinion, The instructions at the top of the Mythtv XMLTV
>     page is accurate as to installing the things needed for XMLTV,
>     certainly for Ubuntu/Debian based systems. If your Distro doesn't
>     have some old version of XMLTV available as a package, then you
>     may have a lot of perl packages that are required to be installed.
>     Manually installing all of XMLTV from the git is easy, except if
>     you have to get all those little Perl pieces together.  I'd set
>     aside 30 minutes for all the googling you'll need to do the find
>     your distro's package for the perl lib you're missing. Git readme
>     should help.
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>     Next I'd use tv_grab_xx_sdjson_sqlite.  It seems to be very
>     flexible and for me easy.  The time consuming part is yes/no on
>     each of the channels you want for your Zipcode.
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>     THE KEY is to do all the XMLTV setup stuff as user 'mythtv'
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>     Jim A
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> Is it possible to grab lineups from multiple zipcodes?
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> I have a couple of channels (Bloomberg, France24 English language 
> news) set up via the HLS recorder. In the non-XMLTV SD setup, I have a 
> Toronto postal code for the Toronto/Buffalo OTA listings and a NYC 
> cable zipcode to get the schedules for the two HLS channels.
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> Can the XMLTV setup handle that and would I have to say 'NO' to 
> hundreds of cable channels just to get those two? In the web interface 
> I was just able to deselect all and just choose the two I needed.
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I have done this before when one of my HDHR tuners didn't pickup a few 
channels.  I created 2 databases on XMLTV with different names and then 
selected which channels schedules went into which database.  then I 
created 2 video sources in mythtv to match those 2 names. Input 
Connections were setup to match the video source to which tuner.

Jim A

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