Tvheadend

I've spent days on this issue and read as many posts as I can and am still no closer. So here goes.

Vital statistics and testing below:

Ubuntu 12.10 64bit
HTS Tvheadend 3.2.34~gfaee94b~quantal
XBMC 12 "Frodo"

$ sudo apt-get install xmltv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
*xmltv is already the newest version.*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded.

hts@loungeroom:~$ ps aux | grep tvhead
hts      26292  0.2  0.2 140640  3144 ?        Ssl  22:13   0:05 tvheadend -f -u hts -g video
hts      26990  0.0  0.0   4396   824 pts/0    S+   22:59   0:00 grep tvhead

hts@loungeroom:~$ whoami
hts

hts@loungeroom:~$ ~/.shepherd/shepherd --history
shepherd v1.7.3 (linux)

Reading configuration file: /home/hts/.shepherd/shepherd.conf
Reading channels file: /home/hts/.shepherd/channels.conf

Shepherd has run successfully 1 times in the last 0 days.

History: 3h28m ago (91.91%).

hts@loungeroom:~$ cat .hts/tvheadend/epggrab/config 
{
    "channel_rename": 1,
    "channel_renumber": 1,
    "channel_reicon": 1,
    "interval": 43200,
    "module": "/usr/bin/tv_grab_au",
    "mod_enabled": {
        "/usr/bin/tv_grab_au": 1,
        "xmltv": 1,
        "pyepg": 1
    }
}

When I set Tvheadend internal grabber to XMLTV:Australia I get

Mar 02 23:12:05 /usr/bin/tv_grab_au: grab /usr/bin/tv_grab_au
Mar 02 23:12:13 /usr/bin/tv_grab_au: no output detected
Mar 02 23:12:13 /usr/bin/tv_grab_au: grab returned no data

Just to check in Tvheadend I set the internal grabber to XMLTV:France and get

Mar 02 23:10:06 /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr: grab /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr
Mar 02 23:10:07 /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr: grab took 1 seconds
Mar 02 23:10:07 /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr: parse took 0 seconds
Mar 02 23:10:07 /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr: channels tot= 0 new= 0 mod= 0
Mar 02 23:10:07 /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr: brands tot= 0 new= 0 mod= 0
Mar 02 23:10:07 /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr: seasons tot= 0 new= 0 mod= 0
Mar 02 23:10:07 /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr: episodes tot= 0 new= 0 mod= 0
Mar 02 23:10:07 /usr/bin/tv_grab_fr: broadcasts tot= 0 new= 0 mod= 0

I know the tv_grab_au is working for user hts - attached is the xmltv output.

OTA EPG works correctly, it is just metadata poor in Australia. I noticed that in the Channels configuration screen when I click on the epg grabber field it just opens an empty list box saying "loading" - no matter how many epg sources I set up.

I hope someone can point out what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks for a great tool. Revolutionised my loungeroom.