Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Sep 13, 2007, at 07:31, Frank DiPrete wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 16:58 -0400, Ted Roche wrote:
>> Just checking in to find out if anyone has switched their MythTV  
>> setups
>> over to Schedules Direct [1]? ("Schedules Direct is a non-profit
>> organization that provides raw U.S./Canadian tv listing data to  
>> Free and
>> Open Source Applications. Those applications then use the data to
>> provide things like PVR functionality, search tools, and private  
>> channel
>> grids.")
>>
>> For those not following along, a subsidiary of the Tribune Media  
>> cartel
>> (Zap2It Labs) had been providing the data gratis to the community  
>> using
>> their own server resources; something's changed and they've  
>> decided not
>> to do that. Schedules Direct was formed as a non-profit and has
>> scrambled to license the data and pass it on to the many PVR
>> communities. Interestingly, they approached a number of companies  
>> which
>> had accumulated the data, but were not able to work out a payment  
>> with
>> anyone other than the Tribune folks.
>>
>> [1] http://www.schedulesdirect.org
>>
>
> sd sign up and confirm:		worked
> compile mythtv 0.20.2:		worked
> update from 0.20-svn to 0.20.2:	worked
>
> Add sd source to mythtv:  flawed
> Only one option to remove old zap2it source: delete all.
> deleted all, then had to re-add sd.
>
> Retrieve sd channel list: extremely flawed
> Channel names not retrieved / added.
> 99% of channels added as "adding Channel #"
> have to manually edit the channel list.

Hrm, my experience fetching channels was nothing like that, on both a  
0.20.2 test system and an svn trunk system. Are you sure that was  
from "fetch channel listings from source" and not perhaps "scan for  
channels"? Scanning for channels won't get channel names in most  
cases, leaving you with something along the lines of what you describe.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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