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Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:18 am
by bklein
I have returned to MythTV after not using it for about 2 years. I used Shepherd for guide data but it seems no longer maintained and does not have guide data for new (or renamed) channels. I have read that OzTivo is an option. Is it any good? The fallback would be EIT. IceTV is also available but I do not want to pay for guide data.
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:37 am
by Steve Goodey
Topic moved from General to Australia.
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 7:09 am
by bklein
Well it looks like Oztivo isn't an option (at the moment at least) because they have "temporarily" suspended registrations. I'm still interested to know if it is any good, is actively maintained and if anybody knows if and when registrations will be allowed again.
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:23 am
by nexzzt
Can't help with Oztivo, but this is an option:
http://www.xmltv.net/
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:42 am
by bklein
Thanks. I will have to figure out if / how I can use this for MythTV.
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 3:14 am
by nexzzt
This is just a quick script I put together, could do with some checking etc. You can get your sourceid using:
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mysql -umythtv -p mythconverg -e "select sourceid from videosource"
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#!/bin/bash
XMLTVFILE='Brisbane.xml'
SOURCEID='1'
RESULT=$(wget -c http://xmltv.net/xml_files/$XMLTVFILE -P /tmp)
/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --file --sourceid $SOURCEID --xmlfile /tmp/$XMLTVFILE
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:26 am
by bklein
Thanks. I'll have to spend some time working through this and trying it out. Shepherd does a lot of this work for you - including guided matching of channels with xmltvid's, updating the xmltvid's in Myth and even writing a line into user's crontab - so it will take me a while to try it out more manually. In the meantime I'm using EIT for the channels that Shepherd no longer has - the EIT data doesn't seem too bad.
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 12:14 pm
by bklein
I ran the script. It populated the xml file. However with the mythfilldatabase part I got errors like those below for all channels - so no updates were made to mythconverg.
Do I need to insert these channel identifiers into mythconverg as the XMLTV ID's?
Also - Who is maintaining this site and where is it obtaining its data from?
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2020-09-26 21:59:40.627113 N Unknown xmltv channel identifier: 96.yourtv.com.au - Skipping channel.
2020-09-26 21:59:40.627323 N Unknown xmltv channel identifier: 99.yourtv.com.au - Skipping channel.
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:00 pm
by paulh
Looks like Schedules Direct are now testing a service for Australia for anyone interested in testing the new service.
https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/mythtv/users/634384
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:23 pm
by nexzzt
bklein wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 12:14 pm
I ran the script. It populated the xml file. However with the mythfilldatabase part I got errors like those below for all channels - so no updates were made to mythconverg.
Do I need to insert these channel identifiers into mythconverg as the XMLTV ID's?
Also - Who is maintaining this site and where is it obtaining its data from?
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2020-09-26 21:59:40.627113 N Unknown xmltv channel identifier: 96.yourtv.com.au - Skipping channel.
2020-09-26 21:59:40.627323 N Unknown xmltv channel identifier: 99.yourtv.com.au - Skipping channel.
Yes, you need to set the channel ID for each channel (using the MythTV-Backend setup -> Channel Editor) to match the IDs in the XML. Shepherd does this part for you which is a nice feature.
Re: Guide Data for Australia
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 9:24 pm
by nexzzt
I recall SD did this for Oz guide data a couple of years ago, then pulled it. It's great to have the option, but hope that doesn't happen again.