[Gllug] Trouble with MythTV and tv_grab_uk_rt

[John Winters]

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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