[mythtv-users] UK Radio Times XML feed down

dlknight at sdf.lonestar.org dlknight at sdf.lonestar.org
Fri Sep 17 08:43:57 UTC 2010


> If you (or anyone else reading this) are using XMLTV to get your
> listings, please join/follow the xmltv-users list [1] where problems
> like this are discussed - as you've found out the problem is with the
> listings feed and not mythfilldatabase.
>
> The feed has been very intermittent for the past several weeks since
> the Radio Times changed listings providers. I can't offer a solution
> except to use the latest stable release of XMLTV and to hang in there
> and keep checking the feed. The XMLTV Project runs a validator for all
> grabbers [2] and it's worth keeping an eye on the tv_grab_uk_rt
> results to check recent reliability (currently it's been down for 5 of
> the last 10 days when checked).
>
> If you are running the current stable release of XMLTV (0.5.58) the
> grabber will cache good listings it retrieves for those times when the
> grabber is run and no listings are available. This will not give you
> any new listings, but will enable listings generated from the cached
> data to take advantage of any updates to the fixup/consistency data
> the grabber uses. I'm not aware of a time when the full 14 days of
> listings have run out after an outage before new listings have been
> generated, but this is of no use if you don't have the initial
> listings to being with.
>
> At time of writing the feed seems to be working but this appears to be
> after a non-standard update - the feed normally updates daily at
> around 0445GMT, but the current listings files were updated this
> afternoon shortly before 1530BST. I reported the current outage to the
> Radio Times earlier, and do so after the feed has been down for more
> than a day.
>
> [1] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmltv-users
> [2] http://debian.crustynet.org.uk/~xmltv-tester/sid/nightly/
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
> --
> Nick Morrott
>
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>
>

Thanks Nick I'm running version 0.5.57 didn't know there had been a recent
update - so will upgrade over the weekend.

Just signed up to the xmltv user list as well :)

I ran an update at about 5pm yesterday and have full 14 days again now.

Cheers

Dave K.





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