log jam wrote:
> As for the additional script, I had read that thread and thought it only applied to French users, but it looks like it could be run in the US as well. Do you think it needs to be modified to run in the US, or is it good to go?
I think it probably does need to be modified, specifically to translate the tags used by zap2it and passed into the XML file by zap2xml, into the categories that Tvheadend wants to see. It's probably just script that does straight substitution of one word for another. The problem is that the program in that thread was written for use with a French service and therefore probably expects the XML file to contain French language categories.
At the heart of it, it's probably just replacing one tag with another.
I'm like you when it comes to Linux, to me almost everything in Linux seems far more complicated than it should be. I did not read all the pages of that thread, so if you have the time and go through them all, just maybe someone has modified it to work with zap2it-style categories.
But I still can't help thinking there was another script written from the get-go for use with sap2it/zap2xml, I even remember trying it out, but I simply cannot remember the name of it or where I saw it. It was likely either in this forum or the Kodi forum Tvheadend section, but I just don't remember.
EDIT: It MAY have been the Perl script on this page:
https://github.com/rocky4546/script.xmltv.tvheadend/tree/master/xmltv - the package it is part of was intended to provide some kind of integration between Kodi and Tvheadend or something, but I never needed it since I already had all the necessary parts installed and working, I just wanted to see if the genre translations script worked. But I do remember that in some way it screwed things up for me, so I stopped using that script. Maybe the problem has been fixed, or maybe you could fix it if you know Perl (I'm guessing you probably don't), but I don't have high hopes that it will work for you as-is (but who knows, you might get lucky).