Tvheadend

I did add the ability to add command line options when calling XMLTV scripts from within tvheadend, but removed it for reasons of simplicity.

Instead what I have done is create a UNIX domain socket interface (needs enabling from EPG Grabe configuration) into which you can send any XMLTV data. This simplified things greatly from a TVH point of view and meant I didn't need to second guess all the possible use cases (script chaining, command line options, cron timing, etc...)

To use this interface enable it in the UI (it should tell you the path to the socket file) and then input your data as follows:

tv_grab_blah [OPTIONS] | netcat -U SOCK_PATH

Note: that some versions of netcat have varying options and it might be -u (lowercase) not -U (uppercase).

You could put this in a cronjob to make it automatically repeat as required.

Alternatively you could just create a simple wrapper script to do all the work, as long as the script begins tv_grab_ is in the PATH and responds to --description and --capabilities I think it should work.

Adam

Ok, thank you for your response.

i will try with netcat, it seems a good way to generalize that.

I thought to make a wrapper or use the tv_grab_file script too, but these seem to be tricks to do that

Bye!

excellent.
it works like a charm!!!

Bye!

I am having problems with above instructions when running on a QNAP NAS 459 Pro.

Firstly the QNAP netcat doesn't support the UNIX domain socket. So with some research I found socat which is more advanced but more complicated.

but when I use the syntax as follows the process hangs when interacting with the xmltv.sock
socat EXEC:"tv_grab_au_reg [OPTIONS]" UNIX-CLIENT:xmltv.sock

have no problems with
socat EXEC:"tv_grab_au_reg [OPTIONS]" STDOUT

which displays all the xml data to the screen.

Any help appreciated as I am a novice at this sort of stuff