Tvheadend

I have had a similar problem once with xmltv files where the stop time attribute was missing. Can you post your xmltv output?

Replying to [comment:1 sbi]:

I have had a similar problem once with xmltv files where the stop time attribute was missing. Can you post your xmltv output?

you are right, i have added a (shortend) xmltv-output, and indeed it is missing the stop time attribute.

<programme start="20101027000000 +0100" channel="gotv.search.ch">
    <title lang="de">Clubnight</title>
    <desc lang="de">Du willst mal nicht ausgehen? Dann lass doch den Club zu dir kommen. gotv präsentiert dir die besten Songs und Geheimtipp-Videos. Zum Feiern, Partymachen oder Chillen - und das jeden Tag die ganze Nacht!</desc>
    <category lang="de">Musik</category>
    <category lang="de">magazin. Unterhaltung</category>
  </programme>

is there a way to get it running without the stop time attribute?

cheers

Not as the code is now. But I guess it could be improved

I did some research on this topic and i came across the xmltv filter "tv_sort":

# tv_sort --help
/usr/local/bin/tv_sort: sort listings by time, sanity-check and add stop time to programmes

i tried it and it really adds the stop time attribute to the xmltv-file.
So it would be nice to filter the tv_grab_* output with tv_sort before injecting the data in TVheadend EPG

Can anyone tell me how to do that?

i have found a dirty workaround:

in the console i renamed the script and created a new one with the "old" name:

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo mv tv_grab_ch_search tv_grab_ch
sudo nano tv_grab_ch_search

The new "tv_grab_ch_search" has the following lines:

#! /bin/sh
tv_grab_ch --output ~/.epgdata.xml
tv_sort ~/.epgdata.xml

So finally i have my EPG working!
There is just one small issue: after update to the CVS-Version of xmltv i cannot change the "XML-TV Source" in the web-gui of tvheadend any more. But i don't really care about that.

Suggestion:
Maybe you can make this default (tv_grab_* -> tv_sort -> Tvheadend EPG) since the tv_sort script comes with xmltv.
The only downside is a little extra time, but on the other hand xmltv EPG will work with more scripts and will be less error prone.

stif -¶

I know this post is very old, but I hope you'll still receive the emails.
Do you think you can update your tv_grab_script file and post it maybe to GitHub?

I think XMLTV has changed something in their configuration because you cannot configure tv_grab_script anymore without errors; in fact, it gives:

Unknown stage end at /xmltv/bin/tv_grab_script line 63.

That's because of:

sub config_stage
{
    ... cut ...
    $writer->end( 'end' );
    #$writer->end();   #why not??
    return $result;
}

$writer->end( 'select-channels' );

Trying to run tv_grab_script --configure with that modification gives:

  ... cut ...
  </channel>
</tv>
:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
0

Then, after renaming the partial configuration:

mv ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_script.conf.TMP ~/.xmltv/tv_grab_script.conf

It would be great if you can publish a patch of your script, which is very useful when the broadcasters don't publish an "end program" time. Apparently TVHeadend still has problems to ingest programs without the "end" attribute.