[mythtv-users] Mythmetadatalookup Fails with "Television grabber not functional. Aborting this run."

[Raymond Wagner]

On 4/29/2012 15:10, Paul Gallaway wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Paul Gallaway<pgallaway at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I upgraded from 0.23 to 0.24 about a month ago and from 0.24 to 0.25
>> when 0.25 was released shortly after. I don't think metadata worked on
>> 0.24 either. Movie look-ups work fine, TV look-ups fail. I think it's
>> probably a configuration problem on my end, possibly dependency on
>> debian-multimedia end. Would appreciate any input. Error doesn't give
>> much of a hint, to me at least. Thanks,
>>
>> mythtv at silo:~/$ mythmetadatalookup --refresh-all
>> 2012-04-29 14:56:46.770526 C  mythmetadatalookup version:  [v0.25pre]
>> 2012-04-29 14:56:47.030647 I  Television grabber not functional.
>> Aborting this run.
> Two more things I just thought to add. Just noticed that it apears to
> be a 0.25pre version. Unfortunately debian-multimedia doesn't list a
> git version string so not really sure what the date of this build is.
> I was building my own for 0.23.
>
> Second, under setup>artwork and data sources the television metadata
> source is blank.

Run "PREFIX/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py --version" and 
output the results.  PREFIX defaults to "/usr/local" in MythTV's build 
system, but your distro may install to "/usr" instead.