After been using timefor.tv for several years – suddenly they desided, that they will not supoort download of xmltv eventhough they run it as a paid service – So no more data from timefor.tv.
Instead I began looking for a new source to collect the XMLTV from tv_grab_se_tvzon – which needs a bit of configuration. start with installing the packages for xmltv:
| apt-get install xmltv xmltv-util libxmltv-perl |
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After installing these packages we need to configure which channels we will use from this ( do not enable all – since this is a really huge file) so run the configure command:
| tv_grab_se_tvzon –configure |
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Now you have to answer y to all the channels you want to download guide for. Since there about 100 channels etc to collect data from – this will take some time. afterwards we can create a script that will download all data and import it into MythTV – My Script looks like this – called xmltv-update.sh:
| #!/bin/bash # # This script provides Data from Timefor.tv to MythTV # Created by pbj# Different Params XMLID=”tvguide.xml” TV=”tv.xml” # Script starting # Getting the new datafile # Correcting the time # Import it into MythTV # EOF |
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I’ve allso added a timefix – depending on summer/winter time. place the file where you want to run it from. Now add and enable the script for automaticly daily import through crontab:
| chmod +x xmltv-update.sh crontab -e <– open crontab editor – add these lines in bottom: 0 13 * * * /path/to/xmltv-update.sh |
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Save the Crontab – and now it’ll import it self each day at 13:00 – called by crontab.