TVH seems to not to get XMLTV

Xander Log

Hi all,

I have install webgrab++ in a system that uses tvheadend and I'm not able to make it read the data stored on guide.xml. I feel that I've almost everything made and I'm losing some little detail, so I hope someone can help me.

At this moment I have the guide.xlm generated and when I run in terminal:

/usr/bin/tv_grab_wg++

I get the EPG data that I scanned, so it's working ok. then I go to TVheadend and in the "EPG Grabber" section I've gone to "Internal Grabber" and select "XMLTV: /usr/bin/tv_grab_wg++".

I have also install "xmtv" running:

sudo apt-get install xmltv

My problem is that no matter what I configure in the "EPG Grabber" tab, I can't make TVheadend using the EPG data stored with webgrab+

Many thanks in advance

Alex .

Hi,

Are you sure tv_grap runs when restarting tvheadend ?
You can check using ps -A |grep tv.
You can also check the file storing the date, it is in the home-directory of the tvheadend-user under .xmltv .

Is it up to date and does it contain the date you would expect to turn up in tvheadend?

In my case, tv_grab only took the next three days of data, which was similar to the OTA-EPG, so it seemed tv_grap didn't do anything useful...

Alex.

Xander Log wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have install webgrab++ in a system that uses tvheadend and I'm not able to make it read the data stored on guide.xml. I feel that I've almost everything made and I'm losing some little detail, so I hope someone can help me.
>
> At this moment I have the guide.xlm generated and when I run in terminal:
>
>/usr/bin/tv_grab_wg++ >
> I get the EPG data that I scanned, so it's working ok. then I go to TVheadend and in the "EPG Grabber" section I've gone to "Internal Grabber" and select "XMLTV: /usr/bin/tv_grab_wg++".
>
> I have also install "xmtv" running:
>
>sudo apt-get install xmltv >
> My problem is that no matter what I configure in the "EPG Grabber" tab, I can't make TVheadend using the EPG data stored with webgrab+
>

> Many thanks in advance

Xander Log

Many thanks for your answer, Alex,

The problem was that channels' name of tvheadend didn't match with the ones on webgrab+, I had to edit que WebGrab++.config.xml file and changind the name, for example:

The last "NEOX" came originally as Neox, and didn't work until I changed to "NEOX" (all in uppercase, to make it mach witch the channel as recognized in TVHeadend.

Many thanks again

piotr w

I just switched to tv_grab_nl_py and I may have the same issue, I can only see the EPG for a few channels. Should I change to channelnames in the .conf to match the channelnames in TvHeadend or should I edit the channel names in TvHeadend ?

Alex .

piotr w wrote:

> I can only see the EPG for a few channels.

Is this in tvheadend, or in the output of tv_grab ?

Best is to first check if the information tv_grab fetches does contain the necessary information ( i.e. .xmltv/program_cache).

If the 'missing' data is not there, you might want to generate a new .conf file (what channels are you missing ? It might be the source that is used bij tv_grap does not contain all channels).

Alex.

piotr w

.conf file is ok, I edited out the channels I don't need.

I followed this guide: https://tvheadend.org/d/1035-setting-up-xbmc-plus-tvheadend-with-a-pvr-analog-tv-card-and-an-external-grabber-tv_grab_nl_py-ziggo-cable-provider?r=8548

I see program info the program_cache file, what should this file look like ?

For instance I can see that every program name starts with V, the time also starts with V: "V00:55 - 01:20 uur" I don't see channelnames in this file.

Alex .

- Are there no channel names at all ?
Maybe try

cat program_cache | grep -i BBC

- Can you try to find any of the programs that are missing from tvheadend in the program_cache

The question is if the program that you would expect to appear in the tvheadend guide is in the program_cache or not.

- Otherwise, are there specific channels you are missing ? Or is it random ?

Alex.

piotr w

Deleted all XMLTV related files and started over again. Seems to be working fine now. Thanks.

Alex .

Ok, well, good to hear :-)

Alex.