xmltv: No output from "/usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd"

Steve Koch

Hoping for some guidance.

I've read other threads regarding this and I think I've made the corrections, but still does not work.

Working on XBMCBuntu w/ TVHeadend 2.12.

TVHeadend outputs on xmltv grab:

May 01 19:24:15 xmltv: Grabbing "North America (Data Direct)" using command "/usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd"

May 01 19:24:15 xmltv: No output from "/usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd"

hts directories I think have the correct permissions:

/home/hts$ ll
drwxrwxr-x 4 hts video 4096 2012-05-01 19:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2012-04-24 21:22 ../
-rw------- 1 hts hts 204 2012-05-01 20:24 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 3 hts hts 4096 2012-03-24 04:57 .hts/

drwxrwxrwx 3 hts video 4096 2012-05-01 18:35 .xmltv/

/home/hts$ ll .xmltv/
total 16
drwxrwxrwx 3 hts video 4096 2012-05-01 18:35 ./
drwxrwxr-x 4 hts video 4096 2012-05-01 19:15 ../
drwxrwxrwx 3 hts video 4096 2012-04-24 21:30 supplement/

-rw-r--r-- 1 hts video 1012 2012-05-01 19:13 tv_grab_na_dd.conf

tv_grab_na_dd.conf contains a working username and password, and when the executable is run from the command line there is a ton of text received. I did this as the hts user ('sudo su - hts').

What else could possibly be the problem?

Steve Koch

I ended up doing a clean reinstall of XBMCBuntu as TVHeadend was not cooperating at all. (It wouldn't save configurations boot to boot.) So far it seems to be working correctly. In the clean install, the only added packages have been those in support of DVBhdhomerun and a few mentioned here for testing: http://dvbhdhomerun.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dvbhdhomerun/dvbhdhomerun/installation.txt . (In my prior setup I did install VLC, and the HDHomeRun SiliconDust config stuff, which I might do again.)

For the record, tv_grab_na_dd --configure was run in my login, and then the entire .xmltv directory was copied to the home directory of the hts user with user/group hts/hts. It worked the first time.

(The password setup for TVHeadend was extremely annoying. I wish that would just work without password the first time and then support a password on access option setup from within the web interface. It refused to accept password changes several times, perhaps due to the usernames I was trying. Should it not be user hts and whatever that password is set to?)

Randy Lust

Where is the output file from /usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd placed?

I can run the command fine, but do not know where the output goes and better yet where is should be :)

I am getting the same message when the schedule in TVHeadend runs.

Thanks for any help!

Adam Sutton

It goes into TVH, it doesn't get stored anywhere. The output from the script is ready directly by the TVH program.

If you're getting that error it almost always means that XMLTV has not been properly configured, did you configure the script as whatever user runs TVH (hts if you're using official debs).

Adam