Tvheadend

Install xmltv

#yum install xmltv

#service tvheadend restart

But xmltv is installed and TVH can see the grabbers on startup, shown in the log in my OP. What I don't understand is why the EPG config tab does not show any modules at all.

If you build tvheadend
do make clean before build

I'm installing from the Bintray repo for the Centos RPM. Didn't want to get into building TVH, just install a stable release and try it out. I got XMLTV from xmltv.org and installed only the grabbers that I'm interested in using. As far as I can tell I followed the correct docs and other notes and posts in forums. The grabber is able to fetch the EPG info from Schedules Direct on the command line as the TVH owner. But for some reason EPG config tabs don't show any modules and I don't know what TVH needs to enable those.

The OTA guide works but is only 2 days and not much detail from the broadcasters.

Rob Q wrote:

I'm installing from the Bintray repo for the Centos RPM. Didn't want to get into building TVH, just install a stable release and try it out. I got XMLTV from xmltv.org and installed only the grabbers that I'm interested in using. As far as I can tell I followed the correct docs and other notes and posts in forums. The grabber is able to fetch the EPG info from Schedules Direct on the command line as the TVH owner. But for some reason EPG config tabs don't show any modules and I don't know what TVH needs to enable those.

The OTA guide works but is only 2 days and not much detail from the broadcasters.

Centos may install xmltv scripts in a directory not checked by tvh, on debian it runs /usr/bin/tv_find_grabbers which outputs all available grabbers.

If you do a "whereis(or which) tv_find_grabbers" you may find them in a different location.

You can create a symlink to it.

An example being..

ln -s /usr/local/bin/tv_find_grabbers /usr/bin/tv_find_grabbers

try running /usr/bin/tv_find_grabbers afterwards to make sure it's working.

Thanks. If you look at the log output I included in the OP you can see that epggrab finds and creates the modules for the xmltv grabbers that I have installed. It is from TVH on startup. The entries match the installed location.

I had another XMLTV package from a different source which placed the grabbers in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin. The end result is the same even after I removed that package and installed a new build from xmltv.org.

Rob Q wrote:

Thanks. If you look at the log output I included in the OP you can see that epggrab finds and creates the modules for the xmltv grabbers that I have installed. It is from TVH on startup. The entries match the installed location.

So it does, my mistake, sorry about that.

I had another XMLTV package from a different source which placed the grabbers in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin. The end result is the same even after I removed that package and installed a new build from xmltv.org.

You should have another tab "EPG Grabber Modules", it's in 4.3, It should be in 4.2.4 I think.

I'll have to give 4.2 a go at some point. This is really strange!!

I was hoping for more traction on this but it might not be a common issue. I kept digging and found this post which helped resolve the problem: http://tvheadend.org/boards/12/topics/27076

This might still be a bug in the build for Centos because changing the User Interface Level for my individual Admin account did not make a difference. Instead I had to change it at the General -> Base level making it the default for the application. Only then did the tabs for EPG Grabber Modules and EPG Grabber Channels show up.

Now the EPG loads using XMLTV - tv_grab_zz_sdjson.

Thanks a lot, I've got the same problem on my SYNOLOLGY. And now everything is ok after changing the default User Interface Level for my account.

Yees, 1 day torture finally ended! Thx man! Same problem with QNAP club package for my NAS.