[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct - two program feeds

[Simon Hobson]

Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:

>>> I just got Schedules Direct set up (kind of) in xmltv.

> I let the myth backend run mythfilldatabase here, using schedulesdirect information, and I don't have to do any of that.
> 
> I have two sources with completely different lineups ...


Jim Morton <jimmorton01 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  You need (at least) 2 lineups at Schedules Direct.


Hmm, I was under the impression that with XMLTV you don't use "lineups" - are you using the JSON service, or the older Schedules Direct service (which does use lineups) ? Or are you referring to the 'channels=...' entry in xmltv's config file as a 'lineup' ?


My script (I use a script as I do a bit of filtering on the listings) builds a config file that looks like :
> cache=/var/lib/mythtv/.xmltv/tv_grab_sd_json.cache
> channel-id-format=mythtv
> username=<user>
> password=<pass)
> mode=channels
> channels=GBR-1000040-DEFAULT
> channel=102471
> channel=103817
> channel=...
> ...

After filtering the listings (remove all the 'To Be Announced' entries), it then uses :
> mythfilldatabase --only-update-guide --sourceid 1 --file --xmlfile ${xmlfile2} 2>&1

to load them.


As an aside, it use this code to get the active channel ID from the database :
> mysql --host=localhost --user=mythtv --database=mythconverg --password='<pass>' \
>   -e "select distinct(xmltvid) from channel where visible=1 and useonairguide=0 order by xmltvid ;" |
>   grep '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' |
>   sed -e 's/^/channel=/' >> ${conf}
So grabbing listings is a maintenance free operation in terms of channel IDs - once they are set in MythTV.

Simon