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Mark Hamblin wrote:

Forgive me if treading on someone's toes,...

but since the demise of the Radio Times xmltv feeds earlier this year,... has anyone looked at alternatives such as Atlas ( http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/ ) which has 2 weeks of listings and an extensive channel list including the plus-1hr and plus-24hr content.

regards....

I believe there is an xmltv grabber for the atlas listings but it requires a developer key to access it.

Ah Tx for the response,.

...that's great,.. if that's the case then ( I think ) I already have a key,.. anyone can obtain one, or at least they could.

But how do I set the Atlas grabber from the pull down menu, from within THD menus.

Rgds

The was a python-based Atlas grabber, but I don't know that Adam has done much with it for ages.

However, as Mark C suggested, someone on IRC mentioned that later versions of XMLTV support Atlas (I keep meaning to look at it, I even have a key somewhere...) so I think it's a case of installing, registering and configuring tv_grab_uk_atlas and it would then appear on the drop-down list as part of the 'internal grabber' selection.

I think.

From your other posts, you said you were running 'buntu, so...

apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys DB87EE44DD382349
&& echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/alex-tomlins/xmltv/ubuntu trusty main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xmltv.list
&& apt-get update -qq && apt-get install xmltv

... apparently.

The PPA is here:

https://launchpad.net/~alex-tomlins/+archive/ubuntu/xmltv

And there are daily builds here:

https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu/+archive/ubuntu/xmltv

... so there are options to have a play if you're feeling brave and want to report back later how marvellous/disastrous it was :-)

Well bit the bullet and went for it,...

Thanks to the "Prof" for his suggestions on installing xmltv,.. ( you do need 0.5.60 or greater, and this is not currently available from the ubuntu tree I believe ) last time I did this I had to do all the install and compiling myself,.. so tx for that.

Got Atlas from here:- https://github.com/honir/tv_grab_uk_atlas/blob/master/INSTALL

note the 4 .conf files are actually in a hidden folder/directory ( so 'ls -la' ).

Copy these file to the /home/hts/.xmltv users structure,.. make sure owned/group by 'hts'

and run tv_grab_uk_atlas --configure

You will need a key for Atlas from the Press Association BEFORE you run configure,.. enable a couple of option with the key settings,.. and it should go...

( the grabber script was already in the /usr/bin so no need for that step. )

I had to run configure twice,.. once for freeSAT and once for FreeView,.. then merge the files,.. remove the unwanted headers,.... ( you have to rename the first file created )

and then

run tv_grab_uk_atlas ( this produces a progress bar ( in text ) and when complete a ton of text/xml that scrolls off the screen. )

.... Note run as the hts users,.. ( sudo su - hts ).... running as your default user is NOT the same thing...

Just leaving it to run for the moment,.. I think it worked,.. but we shall see in time...

that's all I have for now,.. will update if different.

Rgrds

If you need a key,..

go here => http://atlas.metabroadcast.com/#reference

and click on "api explorer and free key"

login is via a twitter or facebook account credentials

Then Create an application,.. and enable PA, BBC, UK channel Lineups

Make a note of the key eg a25e54cf67c04a40aaa556efa1ee5e1f

and enter when requested when doing a --configure with the atlas grabber