[mythtv-users] TVWish - just a note for new users

[Brad Templeton]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 10:01:53PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > I have tried tvwish now, but I think it don't works very well with my xmltv
> > source tv_grab_no. I tried to run tvwish with options +v but I don't get to
> > must information. Do you know a way to get more information whats happening?
> > One think I must mention was that the mysql.txt location was different on my
> > Fedora Core 5 mythpc. I changed the location in the file tvwish from
> > /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to /home/mythtv/.mythtv/mysql.txt
> > In the doc it says that the program depends on the "ProgramID" from the
> > DataDirectService. It says also it uses a synthetic ProgramID for people who
> > don't use the Datadirect source. Do you know how this works for people using
> > xmltv Program id?
> 
> I'm using it in Australia and it's really geared up for the DataDirect
> program guide. Our guide data in Australia is not great which means
> that tvwish doesn't work as well as it could.

If you want to send me a dump of the sort of tables you get from xmltv
(such as program, genre, people) I could try to learn more about it.

Does xmltv generate a programid?  If it does, it should work more readily.