The joy of mythtv...

[Crusty]

mythtv:~# mythfilldatabase
Refreshing Tomorrow's data
Retrieving datadirect data...
Grabbing data for Mon Aug 23 2004 offset 1
From : Tue Aug 24 05:00:00 2004 To : Wed Aug 25 05:00:00 2004 (UTC)
--19:20:39-- http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
=> `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]

[ <=> ] 23,524 47.94K/s
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
[ <=> ] 35,207 53.81K/s


Cannot write to `xtvdService' (Broken pipe).
Grab complete.


I am running wget 1.9.1 which is the minimum required..and gzip IS installed. From the googling that I did, it seems to be a problem with headers and wget, but I have no idea how to fix it?

Anybody have any ideas?

 

[drag]

You went and registered for the tv listing services and all that right?

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: drag
You went and registered for the tv listing services and all that right?

Yeppers. There seems to be a few people with the same problem..but I haven't found a solution yet

 

[Bulldog13]

How hard was mythtv to setup ?

 

[drag]

He's not finished.

mythfilldatabase command downloads the tv listings for the next few months from a provider, then integrates the information into a database. Which was setup on earlier steps.

After that he would have most of the hard stuff done, next step is setting up the front end which is pretty easy. (assuming he did everything correct earlier. Sometimes it takes a couple tries to get it)

All in all it's pretty involved proccess.

On a scale of 1 to 10, were ten would be downloading your own kernel sources, then applying a bunch of patches, and then compling and setting it up and 1 is copying .ttf font files to your ~/.fonts directory so you can use them in Mozilla. Mythtv will hit around 5-9 depending if your using a distro that has good pre-compiled binary packages for your system.


But once you get it working it's definately worth it and it's reliable.

 

[Crusty]

Okay...im about to give up on teh Debian packages and go from source...

do you have any recoomendations for distros to use other then Debian for setting this up Drag?

 

[pitupepito2000]

MCrusty, try "apt-get remove mythtv --purge" and then "apt-get install mythtv" that way you get rid of all files, and try with a fresh install

 

[pitupepito2000]

MCrusty, is your subscription working, meaning when you go to the website can you view your subscription ?
also a mythtv related forum that might be good to search in is www.mythtvtalk.com.

Hope this helps,
pitupepito

 

[Crusty]

Yeah, I can login to the site just fine...something is just fishy

 

[drag]

I use Debian unstable for the backend, and Fedora for the front end.
This is the line from my sources.list that I use for debian:
deb http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian unstable mythtv

For the frontend I use apt-get and the sources from atrpms.

Here is what it looks like when I do mythfilldatabase:
Refreshing Tomorrow's data
Retrieving datadirect data...
Grabbing data for Tue Aug 24 2004 offset 1
From : Wed Aug 25 05:00:00 2004 To : Thu Aug 26 05:00:00 2004 (UTC)
--14:48:51-- http://datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com/tvlistings/xtvdService
=> `-'
Resolving datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com... 206.18.98.160
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Connecting to datadirect.webservices.zap2it.com[206.18.98.160]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/xml]

[ <=> ] 161,469 36.26K/s

14:48:56 (36.24 KB/s) - `-' saved [161469]

Your subscription expires on 11/01/04 16:38:04
Grab complete. Actual data from Wed Aug 25 05:00:00 2004 to Thu Aug 26 05:00:00 2004 (UTC)
Clearing data for source...
Clearing from Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 2004 to Thu Aug 26 00:00:00 2004 (localtime)
Data for source cleared...
Main temp tables populated. Updating myth channels...
Updating icons for sourceid: 1
Channels updated.. Updating programs...

When I did mythtv-setup (if I remember correctly):
select video sources:
select [new video sources]
then I give it a name
XMLTV listings grabber: North America (DataDirect)
User ID: blabhablah Password: blahblahblah
Channel frequency table: us-cable-hrc

Then I hit "retrieve lineups". This can take a long time. Then out of that I select the datadirect lineup that I signed up for. I think there was only one selection for this.

I probably wouldn't bother reinstalling it from source. I'd just completely redo the mythtv-setup steps and be carefull about the setup. When starting it make sure to clear the tvlistings and card settings (especially for the first time). Then you basicly start over.

 

[Crusty]

Yeah...I'm using Debian Unstable as well..using that source. I'm gonna redo a few things...I kinda made a mess to get to where i am .

 

[drag]

Don't forget the --purge option when you uninstall stuff. That will get rid of all configuration files installed with the package, otherwise Debian will let them hang around incase you made lots of customization to them.

 

[skyking]

I did debian, and redhat. redhat was easier for me, and in both cases my first experience with that OS.

 

[meksta]

mythtv rocks....i haven't had any problems since i installed .15 when it first came out. Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry happy with it.

Running on fedora2....installing via RPM was a breeze man.