Help needed to retrieve xml tvguide data

[tomtom21000]

I like to integrate a tv guide for germany.

i have nextview epg sucessful running, but.. .. it blocks my tv card for an endless time.

i had a look into this
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=39046

program xmltv and its docs. but i can´t get it running. i have succeeded to choose the channels i want information from.

i can get it started, it retrieves data for such a long time that i allways left the pc alone. in the end the progam is terminated but i do not have a new file with data.

some of the command line options i tried:
d:\xmltv\xmltv.exe tv_grab_de_tvtoday
d:\xmltv\xmltv.exe tv_grab_de_tvtoday --tv_grab_de_tvtoday.cfg --days7 --output tvguide.xml
d:\xmltv\xmltv.exe tv_grab_de_tvtoday --days7 --output tvguide.xml

before i had successfully:
d:\xmltv\xmltv.exe --configure

can anyone help:

- post the correct commandline options?
- is there a gui for the program (could not find one)?
- can someone set up a batch file like the one provided for the dutch xmltv that comes with mediaportal?

tomtom21000

One line in the docs for XMLTV might give you a clue:
"The grabber relies on parsing HTML so it might stop working at any time."

Because various guide services are always changing/updating, code may change and become inoperative. The best is to check with the programs author: Stefan Siegl, ssiegl@gmx.de and query if this is the case.

Otherwise what you have been using as commands seems correct as to what the documentation is saying.
Any of your commands can be put into a bat file, just as you have typed them.

See http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.so...opic.php?t=313 for more.

If you do find a solution, please share it with us, and it will definately get put into the now in-progress manual.

Hi tomtom,

I use a combination of tv movie clickfinder and a small app that converts the data to a xml file.
It works fine for me, but is limited to a couple of channels unless you buy the full version of clickfinder.

For more information, visit
http://www.tvmovie.de/startseite/index.html
and
http://home.snafu.de/w.schneider/tvm2xml/.

-alibert

I hope you know german

enpacke xmltv in das direktory
C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv

ändere tvguide.bat
so ab:

:start
del tvguidenew.xml
del tvguideold.xml
Sleep 10
xmltv.exe tv_grab_de_tvtoday --output=tvguidenew.xml
if errorlevel 10 goto start

ren tvguide.xml tvguideold.xml
ren tvguidenew.xml tvguide.xml

fertig

[mama]

I must recommend, as Alibert, TV Movie here in germany. It costs 9,-€ for a year and you always have actual XML files.

Kann mich Alibert nur anschließen! Ich nutze ebenfalls TV Movie. Kostet schlappe 9,-€uronen per anno und du hast immer aktuelle Daten. Per Taskplaner rufst du über Nacht deine Daten automatisch ab.

[tomtom21000]

@ kishman155:

Thank you for your support, The Batch file works.

I think I will use it instead of Nextview:

# It gets the information in about half an hour
# It does not block the tv-card
# It is free of cost.

Now I´d like a good way to let the bat run from time to time. Do use windows scheduler for that? Should be executed when I start the pc anyway (no wake up)

tomtom21000

Danke für die Hilfe. Funktioniert prima.

I have a spezial way to start the script.
The Normal way you could start the script is with scheduler.
When du you want to start?????
My way to start the script ist to do this when the system shuts down.
symble way is to write to the end of the batchfile :
shutdown -s -t00

After the script is finished to renew your xmlfile the system shutsdown.
This thing is the normal way it works, but not i do.

This is the real one.
everytime to think: i need new xmlfile; is very hard.
I have three batchfiles.
One is the script tvguide.bat without shutdown.
The second is tvguidecopy.bat who copys tvguide.bat into the folder :
C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv
and the third one is check.bat looks for tvguide.bat if it exist in this folder C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv if its true it runs.

The script tvguidecopy.bat is in the sheduler he copy tvguide.bat from a writeprotektet save direktory to C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv every
Thursday and Friday when the system starts.
The third script is in gpedit.msc(only WindowsXPPRO) computerconfiguration or Userconfiguration >Abmelden.
It looks for tvguide.bat in C:\Programme\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\xmltv and if it exists he run it and after tvguide.bat finished. check.bat delite tvguide.bat if tvguide.bat not exists check.bat don´t want to delite tvguide.bat. check.bat will go write foward to shutsdown normal.

i am sorry i forgot my forth script who check tvguide.log on every wednesday and Saturday when it exists it will delite it.
This log becomes writen when tvguide.bat starts. tvguidecopy.bat looksfor tvguide.log if it exists he will not copy.

mfg
Kishman155

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