Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

Frank DiPrete fdiprete at comcast.net
Thu Sep 13 19:06:49 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 09:44 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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.

in the channel editor, I do not have an option for "fetch channel
listings from source" and "channel scan" did cause the problem.

To fix it I deleted all channels from the mythtv channel editor then ran
mythfilldatabase from command line.

Thanks for the tip.



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