tv_grab_uk_pdr

Installation Guide

(last updated 15 Jan 2006)

Firstly, download tv_grab_uk_pdr.bz2 and decompress it.

Then copy the script (as root) to /usr/local/bin/ and ensure it is executable:

# cp tv_grab_uk_pdr /usr/local/bin/
# chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/tv_grab_uk_pdr

Now backup your existing tv_grab_uk_rt and replace it with a link to the new script:

# mv /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt.OLD
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/tv_grab_uk_pdr /usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt

Since your existing config file for tv_grab_uk_rt will be overwritten, back it up before proceeding. It will be in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/.

You should now be able to rerun the mythtv-setup program and select the above script. I have had some trouble with a friend's setup and I had to add in the xmltvids into the mysql database manually. The following is how it ended up:

mysql> select chanid, channum, callsign, name, xmltvid, commfree, mplexid from channel where visible=1;
+--------+---------+----------------+----------------+------------------------+----------+---------+
| chanid | channum | callsign       | name           | xmltvid                | commfree | mplexid |
+--------+---------+----------------+----------------+------------------------+----------+---------+
|   1000 | 1       | BBC ONE        | BBC ONE        | london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk  |        1 |       1 |
|   1001 | 2       | BBC TWO        | BBC TWO        | london.bbc2.bbc.co.uk  |        1 |       1 |
|   1002 | 7       | BBC THREE      | BBC THREE      | choice.bbc.co.uk       |        1 |       1 |
|   1003 | 40      | BBC NEWS 24    | BBC NEWS 24    | news-24.bbc.co.uk      |        1 |       1 |
|   1005 | 30      | CBBC Channel   | CBBC Channel   | cbbc.bbc.co.uk         |        1 |       1 |
|   1006 | 3       | ITV1           | ITV1           | carlton.com            |        0 |       2 |
|   1007 | 34      | ITV3           | ITV3           | itv3.itv.co.uk         |        0 |       2 |
|   1008 | 6       | ITV2           | ITV2           | itv2.itv.co.uk         |        0 |       2 |
|   1009 | 4       | Channel 4      | Channel 4      | channel4.com           |        0 |       2 |
|   1011 | 5       | five           | five           | channel5.co.uk         |        0 |       3 |
|   1013 | 15      | abc1           | abc1           | abc1.disney.com        |        0 |       3 |
|   1018 | 47      | Teachers' TV   | Teachers' TV   | teachers.tv            |        0 |       3 |
|   1019 | 45      | BBC PARLMNT    | BBC PARLMNT    | parliament.bbc.co.uk   |        1 |       4 |
|   1020 | 10      | BBC FOUR       | BBC FOUR       | knowledge.bbc.co.uk    |        1 |       4 |
|   1021 | 31      | CBeebies       | CBeebies       | cbeebies.bbc.co.uk     |        1 |       4 |
|   1025 | 46      | Community      | Community      | communitychannel.org   |        0 |       4 |
|   1026 | 42      | Sky News       | Sky News       | sky-news.sky.com       |        0 |       5 |
|   1027 | 43      | Sky Spts News  | Sky Spts News  | news.sports.sky.com    |        0 |       5 |
|   1028 | 11      | Sky 3          | Sky Three      | 3.sky.com              |        0 |       5 |
|   1029 | 12      | UKTV History   | UKTV History   | ukhistory.tv           |        0 |       5 |
|   1032 | 14      | E4             | E4             | e4.channel4.com        |        0 |       2 |
|   1033 | 39      | E4+1           | E4+1           | plus-1.e4.channel4.com |        0 |       5 |
|   1034 | 13      | More 4         | More 4         | more4                  |        0 |       2 |
|   1035 | 30      | ITV4           | ITV4           | itv4.itv.co.uk         |        0 |       2 |
|   1048 | 18      | The HITS       | The HITS       | thehits                |        0 |       6 |
|   1049 | 21      | TMF            | TMF            | tmf                    |        0 |       6 |
|   1050 | 19      | UKTV Br'tIdeas | UKTV Br'tIdeas | ukbrightideas.tv       |        0 |       6 |
|   1051 | 20      | f tn           | f tn           | ftn.tv                 |        0 |       6 |
|   1052 | 22      | Ideal World    | Ideal World    | idealworld             |        0 |       6 |
|   1053 | 38      | Men & Motors   | Men & Motors   | menandmotors           |        0 |       6 |
+--------+---------+----------------+----------------+------------------------+----------+---------+
30 rows in set (0.01 sec)

The following is my config in /home/mythtv/.mythtv/vs_uk.xml:

94|BBC1 London & SE|london.bbc1.bbc.co.uk
107|BBC2 London & SE|london.bbc2.bbc.co.uk
45|BBC3|choice.bbc.co.uk
47|BBC4|knowledge.bbc.co.uk
26|ITV1 London|carlton.com
132|Channel 4|channel4.com
134|Five|channel5.co.uk
48|BBC News 24|news-24.bbc.co.uk
49|BBC Parliament|parliament.bbc.co.uk
482|CBBC|cbbc.bbc.co.uk
483|CBeebies|cbeebies.bbc.co.uk
921|Ftn|ftn.tv
185|ITV2|itv2.itv.co.uk
256|Sky News|sky-news.sky.com
801|UKTV History|ukhistory.tv
1856|ABC1|abc1.disney.com
1542|Community Channel|communitychannel.org
158|E4|e4.channel4.com
1161|E4 +1|plus-1.e4.channel4.com
1859|ITV3|itv3.itv.co.uk
1802|Ideal World|idealworld
176|Men & Motors|menandmotors
300|Sky Sports News|news.sports.sky.com
1501|TMF: The Music Factory|tmf
1544|The Hits|thehits
923|UKTV Bright Ideas|ukbrightideas.tv
1959|More4|more4
1963|Sky Three|3.sky.com
1961|ITV4|itv4.itv.co.uk
1956|Teacher's TV|teachers.tv

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