2018-08-13, 13:15
I have the following setup:
VBoxCommunications satellite box with unicable input to give me four channels.
Kodi 17.6 Krypton running on Apple MacBook Pro.
I use mc2xml to collect my guide data from Schedules Direct JSON service (for the UK) and save it as my xmltv file. I use an xmltv.chl file to restrict the channels and the final size of the xmltv file (currently a manageable 9.4 Meg). I use the -U flag to download in UTF-8 instead of the default "ISO-8859-1" as I believe Kodi needs that.
I have previously had all this working but let it lapse (on Kodi 17.3) but have now started to get back into it as I have solved using launchd to automatically get the listings once a day for importing to Kodi. With Kodi 17.6 I appear to be having problems.
I cannot import the xmltv data into the VBox as it does not appear to like the Mac network and file structure so that is left unused and is why I want to import it into Kodi.
I am trying to import the data into my Kodi setup but it refuses to do so. I have checked the file content and it all seems OK.
The file location is on the same machine as Kodi so it is not a network issue and Kodi browses and locates it fine.
I have cleared out all previous data and reinitiated Kodi but that also does not help (deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Kodi and ~/.kodi).
I have rebooted the VBox, my router and my MacBook and it still will not load the EPG data from the file.
I am stumped. I read somewhere that it should generate a mapping file but it does not appear to do so.
Can anyone help me please?
Geoff
VBoxCommunications satellite box with unicable input to give me four channels.
Kodi 17.6 Krypton running on Apple MacBook Pro.
I use mc2xml to collect my guide data from Schedules Direct JSON service (for the UK) and save it as my xmltv file. I use an xmltv.chl file to restrict the channels and the final size of the xmltv file (currently a manageable 9.4 Meg). I use the -U flag to download in UTF-8 instead of the default "ISO-8859-1" as I believe Kodi needs that.
I have previously had all this working but let it lapse (on Kodi 17.3) but have now started to get back into it as I have solved using launchd to automatically get the listings once a day for importing to Kodi. With Kodi 17.6 I appear to be having problems.
I cannot import the xmltv data into the VBox as it does not appear to like the Mac network and file structure so that is left unused and is why I want to import it into Kodi.
I am trying to import the data into my Kodi setup but it refuses to do so. I have checked the file content and it all seems OK.
The file location is on the same machine as Kodi so it is not a network issue and Kodi browses and locates it fine.
I have cleared out all previous data and reinitiated Kodi but that also does not help (deleting ~/Library/Application Support/Kodi and ~/.kodi).
I have rebooted the VBox, my router and my MacBook and it still will not load the EPG data from the file.
I am stumped. I read somewhere that it should generate a mapping file but it does not appear to do so.
Can anyone help me please?
Geoff
