Re: [wlug] mythtv installation day?
Along those lines, have you ever tried Knoppmyth? It's goal in life is "KnoppMyth is my attempt at making the Linux and MythTV installation as trivial as possible. "
Well, I tried to get this running on the weekend, (for free to air channels in Hamilton) and with a bit of experience under my belt I think I can ask a couple of targeted questions... I followed the installation instructions found on http:// <http://zaf.geek.nz/projects/mythtv/> zaf.geek.nz/projects/mythtv/ but came across a couple of hang ups. 1. In step 2 of the instructions, it gives details of how to grab the listings from ontv or mrgeek and also how to create a symlink between the tv_grab_nz_mrgeek (or ontv) to the tv_grab_au file that will be selected in the next step.
From what I can understand this tells mythtv where to look for the current tv listings. Am I right in assuming that through this setup mythtv will grab the settings automatically each week, or does that still need to be set up? Is anyone else using the scripts from zaf's webpage? Do the scripts need modification?
2. In step 3, section 3 - "Video sources" of running mythtv-setup as the mythtv user I create a new video source, and called it FTA or similar, and selected the "Australia" option. This creates a file in /home/mythtv/.mythtv called FTA.xmltv If I cancel out of the mythtv-setup program then this file will contain no code. The instructions then say to run mythfilldatabase --manual as the mythtv user but this doesn't work, I get an error along the lines saying that --manual is not a valid option. Any ideas how to proceed from here? What does the FTA.xmltv code look like? Any one got this file for Hamilton? 3. I'm still keen to have a mythtv installation day, who on the committee can help me make this happen? Cheers Justin
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From what I can understand this tells mythtv where to look for the current tv listings. Am I right in assuming that through this setup mythtv will grab the settings automatically each week, or does that still need to be set up?
No, it tells 'mythfilldatabase' what to do. You have to make it run on schedule. You can either make the frontend run it on schedule (this is configured through TV Setup in the frontend IIRC) or you can run it from the system scheduler 'cron'.
I create a new video source, and called it FTA or similar, and selected the "Australia" option. This creates a file in /home/mythtv/.mythtv called FTA.xmltv
You don't need any of this because you're not using the Australian TV grabber. Set your sources up in mythsetup as they're listed on the wiki, and make sure the names match whatever source of guide data you're using (they're listed on MythTvNotes - TV1.mr.geek.nz etc).
Any ideas how to proceed from here?
A far easier way is tell it to use no grabber, set the channels up in mythsetup, and use "mythfilldatabase --file". Then set up a script to get the listings. I use this: #!/bin/bash cd /tmp rm -f listings.xml wget http://nz.ontv.uni.cc/listings.xml mythfilldatabase --file 1 7 listings.xml Or this #!/bin/bash cd /tmp rm -f getlist.html wget http://mr.geek.nz/epg/getlist.html sed -i 's/TV1.mr.geek.nz/One/g' getlist.html sed -i 's/TV2.mr.geek.nz/2/g' getlist.html sed -i 's/TV3.mr.geek.nz/3/g' getlist.html sed -i 's/C4.mr.geek.nz/C4/g' getlist.html sed -i 's/Prime.mr.geek.nz/Prime/g' getlist.html mythfilldatabase --file 1 7 getlist.html I then set my XMLTV ids to One/2/3/C4/Prime, as in the wiki, and can use either OnTV or MrGeek listings. MrGeek are more reliable now but OnTV were there first. Name those scripts 'ontv.sh' and 'mrgeek.sh' respectively in /home/mythtv/bin, and then as 'mythtv', add this line to the file you get when you run 'crontab -e': 0 5 * * * /home/mythtv/bin/mrgeek.sh Then, if mrgeek is down, you can use ontv to get listings. Beware the names are different and this means you will end up missing recordings based on name sometimes. No worse than missing them based on not having guide data at all.
I'm still keen to have a mythtv installation day, who on the committee can help me make this happen?
You are welcome to do all this yourself: The hard parts: - finding a day - finding a location - getting people to turn up The people who you want to come along are the tricky part. Can't force people to come to things that they aren't interested in, and can't work around busy people. You really want to get the MythTV users/experimenters/experts - possibly Kyle, Daniel and myself, sorry if I forgot anyone - to one of these. Craig
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