[mythtv-users] where is grabber local database?

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Mon Jul 5 20:42:48 UTC 2021


On 7/5/21 3:36 PM, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 05/07/2021 21:18, Lloyd Chittenden wrote:
> 
>> The XMLTV setup nightmare continues.  Thanks to advice from this list I switched to the sqlite grabber, and I was able to do a channel scan
>> (even though the documentation says a cable card can't do a channel scan).
>>
>> Now I still can't successfully run mythfilldatabase.  I don't know the name of the local database created by tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite
>> --manage-lineups.  I don't know if I already created one or not.  Where would it be if it already exists?  What would it look like?
>>
>> Lloyd
>>
>>
> 
> Normally it's a file called  SchedulesDirect.DB in the hidden .xmltv directory in the home directory of the user that ran
> tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --manage-lineups.
> 
> So if you used the mythtv user it will be in /home/mythtv/.xmltv/SchedulesDirect.DB
> 
> 
> The actual location of the database can be set in the .xmltv config file for the source. This is mine for a source called FreeviewHD
> 
> $ cat FreeviewHD.xmltv
> 
> database=/home/mythtv/.xmltv/SchedulesDirect.DB
> lineup=GBR-1000040-DEFAULT
> mythtv-categories=enabled
> 
> Paul H.

There's some ASCII art here with just the additions for XMLTV (the SQLite version):

  https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3480&start=15#p19508

-- 
Bill


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