Comments on: MythTV Down Under (finally, it’s not all upside down)

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 23:09:36 +0000

Hi Dave,

Thanks for that. Yeah, probably is time for an update but I haven’t used myth for a long time – probably since that post! Not sure on the status…

Cheers,
-c

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:58:17 +0000

Hi Chris, great work, but time for an update! Or is the epg data now so good in Aus that shepherd is redundant?

Mythtv-setup is invoked by the preceeding not mythsetup btw

Cheers

Dave

By: Harry

Harry — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:25:15 +0000

Chris, keep up the great work

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:46:34 +0000

just wondering how , daily or weekly corrections to the data works out
eg with the current OzTivo data I routinely update the guide data to reflect current episodes etc so I can track the specific showings of series that I watch.
Does this have the same capability?
thanks

By: chris

chris — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:25:15 +0000

Thanks everyone for their suggestions!

-c

By: Max

Max — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:48:50 +0000

Please note that some of this information is now out of date. I’d recommend that rather than following the “TV GUIDE” section above, use the up-to-date instructions from the Shepherd website: http://svn.whuffy.com/wiki/Installation

By: Paul Wayper

Paul Wayper — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:00:23 +0000

Hi Chris,

Great guide there! Excellent work.

I would recommend looking into anacron to solve the “system wakes up at 11:56AM and doesn’t get guide data until 1:00AM the next morning” problem. I don’t use this, as my master backend is on all the time, but it would seem that a configuration like:

1 0 GetTVGuide ~/bin/run_mythfill.sh

Where the ~/bin/run_mythfill.sh files contains:

#!/usr/bin/sh

~/.shepherd/shepherd –daily –quiet
mythfilldatabase –update –file 1 ~/.shepherd/output.xmltv –quiet

(I usually try to package non-trivial cron commands in a script so I can run them easily, and so that I can fiddle with how things work without having to hack the crontab.)

Hope this helps,

Paul

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:18:35 +0000

You can also get MythTV running shepherd like it does the “normal” grabbers, the trick is to make sure that all the .shepherd stuff is in the ~/mythtv directory on a Mythbuntu install. You still have to configure shepherd from the command line, but as the mythtv user (or do it as your normal user then copy the directory across and change ownership).

With my always on box I’ve found having a crontab entry for shepherd and one for mythfilldatabase a bit safer:
# m h dom mon dow command
0 3 * * * /home/troy/.shepherd/shepherd –quiet
0 5 * * * /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase –update –file 2 /home/troy/.shepherd/output.xmltv

By: The Musings of Chris Samuel » Blog Archive » MythTV Electronic Program Guide HOWTO for Australia

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:20:37 +0000

[...] Smart has written an excellent little guide for getting a decent program guide into MythTV in Australia. It walks you through how to go from scratch through installing and configuring [...]

By: Chris Samuel

Chris Samuel — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:56:51 +0000

Excellent timing, I finally got my MythBuntu setup going again today – had problems with not realising I was picking up signals from multiple transmitters and it preferred the ones with not enough signal for a lock!

Now I’ve got that *and* a real program guide!

Thanks so much,
Chris