MythTV Broken again :(

Kris Buytaert — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:01:11 +0000

The earlier posted fix , getting my data from mythportal seemed to be a temporary solution.

It also seems the solution that was mentioned at Kristof Vanhertum's blog , the agent fix doesn't work anymore either.

Somewhere in the comments of that post however people start referring to mc2xml a tool to get your info (even 14 days worth of it) from a really untrustworthy source and import it amongst other tools into MythTV

No source code to be found, just a binary .. something that always scares me .. But running the thing (first time as a dummy empty user, one never knows) actually seems to give me an XML file with relevant data , to be used by mythfilldatabase.

 ./mc2xml  -c be -g 2610 
Loading ..... : mc2xml <mc2xml@gmail.com> (2008-09-15)
Connecting .. : microsoft.com
 
Select lineup: 
 
  0: TER  Unmapped Analogue Terrestrial
  1: TER  Unmapped Digital Terrestrial
  2: CAB  Unmapped Analogue Cable
  3: CAB  Unmapped Digital Cable
  4: SAT  Unmapped Analogue Satellite
  5: SAT  Unmapped Digital Satellite
  6: SAT  TV Vlaanderen Digital Satellite
  7: TER  TV Vlaanderen Digital terrestrial
  8: CAB  Telenet Analog Kabel (132)
 
(0-8): 8 
 
Downloading . : microsoft.com
Downloaded .. : 353944 bytes
Source ...... : BDS
Headend ..... : 7200116
Version ..... : 2693590756
Start time .. : 2008-10-23T00:00:00 UTC
End time .... : 2008-11-06T23:55:00 UTC
Parsing ..... : Telenet Analog Kabel (132)
Writing ..... : xmltv.xml
Writing ..... : mc2xml.dat
Completed ... : 5384193 bytes in 26s, 27 channels, 9409 programs scheduled.

Yes that's my actual postcode. Different postcode values will give you other alternatives such as Coditel/Integan .. so you better use the right one.

I`m not really satisfied however, it fails to recognize my already defined channels. So I seem to have something that at first sight looks like relevant data . Only my channel numbers are way way way off ..

I need to fix that asap. The only problem being that tomorrow it's Geekdinner and I`ll be spending the rest of the weekend at T-Dose hence I have no time to fix this anymore ...

Anyone got a quick fix for that ? Or will I just have to live with a weekend of non-recordings ? :)

Well.. maybe next week will be a productive one then :)

Everything is a Freaking DNS problem - mc2xml

MythTV Broken again :(