[mythtv-users] tv_grab_uk_rt isn't working

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 23:20:58 UTC 2006


On 12/02/06, Stephen Kitchener <stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sunday 12 Feb 2006 22:49, Nick wrote:
> > On 12/02/06, Stephen Kitchener <stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 12 Feb 2006 14:41, Justin Hornsby wrote:
> > > > I've noticed that tv_grab_uk_rt isn't working at the moment.  The xml
> > > > feeds seem to be missing (i.e.
> > > > http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/channels.dat is empty etc).
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know what's happenned / what's going on / when they'll be
> > > > back?
> > >
> > > Hi Justin.
> > >
> > > I have noticed that tv_grab_uk_rt doesn't get any data sometimes....
> > >
> > > I would leave it until tomorrow - it goes missing from time to time....
> >
> > Still down at 2245 - it seems that the underlying data is still there
> > (for the channels I checked) but that channels.dat is empty, which
> > causes the grabber to fail. Maybe it could be worthwhile keeping a
> > local cached copy of channels.dat (taken care of by the grabber) in
> > case this happens frequently?)
>
> Maybe I missing something here - I've still got 13 days of data here, even
> though the data collection failed... I'm only missing a day,

I have data up until beg 25 Feb. It appears the site went down after
11am this morning, as my update this morning was successful - checking
this evening failed after a few seconds! Hopefully the Beeb will
notice and have it fixed for tomorrow.

Nick


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