2012-05-04, 19:27
Using this as a bit of a notepad because it always helps others once Google's indexed this page.
This is what I'm trying: I'm going to switch on XMLTV but merge several sources to nail together a complete picture. I'm also going to add a new XLMTV source that hopefully does know about these channels. Sooooo....
1. Found and installed a Sky EPG grabber from https://github.com/Floppy/tv_grab_uk_sky
2. Created a file /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_sky and just pasted the grabber code in (hey, it was quick...!)
3. Make it executable with sudo chmod 0755 /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_sky
==> Didn't work - JSON error ("... Can't locate JSON.pm in @INC").
4. Install required libraries with sudo apt-get install libjson-perl
5. Ran the new grabber with /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_sky --configure - it appears to work, but tvheadend can't see it. It must get an "index" of grabbers from somewhere...
6. Ran /usr/bin/tv_find_grabbers - no luck, it doesn't appear to see the grabber, just comes back with the same list as tvheadend had
==> Quick bit of debugging, seems the new file has a blank description, so edited it to correct
Line 84 - changed
to
7. Ran /usr/bin/tv_find_grabbers again - success this time, it adds the new grabber to the list
8. Ran /usr/bin/tv_grab_combiner --configure to select all channels from Freeview (Radio Times grabber), Freesat (Radio Times) and Sky (the new grabber)
9. Switched on XMLTV in tvheadend (Configuration -> XMLTV -> combine information from several other grabbers)
11. Sit back and see what happens...
I'll let you know!
This is what I'm trying: I'm going to switch on XMLTV but merge several sources to nail together a complete picture. I'm also going to add a new XLMTV source that hopefully does know about these channels. Sooooo....
1. Found and installed a Sky EPG grabber from https://github.com/Floppy/tv_grab_uk_sky
2. Created a file /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_sky and just pasted the grabber code in (hey, it was quick...!)
3. Make it executable with sudo chmod 0755 /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_sky
==> Didn't work - JSON error ("... Can't locate JSON.pm in @INC").
4. Install required libraries with sudo apt-get install libjson-perl
5. Ran the new grabber with /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_sky --configure - it appears to work, but tvheadend can't see it. It must get an "index" of grabbers from somewhere...
6. Ran /usr/bin/tv_find_grabbers - no luck, it doesn't appear to see the grabber, just comes back with the same list as tvheadend had
==> Quick bit of debugging, seems the new file has a blank description, so edited it to correct
Line 84 - changed
Code:
description => "",to
Code:
description => "United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland (Sky EPG)",7. Ran /usr/bin/tv_find_grabbers again - success this time, it adds the new grabber to the list
8. Ran /usr/bin/tv_grab_combiner --configure to select all channels from Freeview (Radio Times grabber), Freesat (Radio Times) and Sky (the new grabber)
9. Switched on XMLTV in tvheadend (Configuration -> XMLTV -> combine information from several other grabbers)
11. Sit back and see what happens...
I'll let you know!
