[Gllug] Trouble with MythTV and tv_grab_uk_rt
John Winters
john at sinodun.org.uk
Fri Oct 6 05:30:53 UTC 2006
Pete Ryland wrote:
> On 02/10/06, *John Winters* <john at sinodun.org.uk
> <mailto:john at sinodun.org.uk>> wrote:
>
> Does anyone on this list use MythTV and tv_grab_uk_rt to get your TV
> listings? If so, have you had any difficulty with it in the last few
> days? I have two MythTV boxes and they've both started to fail to get
> listings. Has this happened to anyone else?
>
>
>
> I've had the same problem, but I actually wrote my own tv_grab_uk_pdr[1]
> a few years ago since that one used to do a screen scrape and was very
> slow. The more recent versions use the same method as me now, which is
> to grab the raw data from:
>
> http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/${channum}.dat
>
> which used to provide a csv-type file, but unfortunately is now
> protected by basic auth. So I guess it's going to have to be back to
> the screen scraping version! :-)
Seems to be working again! After a week of not working, it all started
working again in the small hours of yesterday morning. Whatever RT did
they have presumably un-done.
John
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