UpdateEPG script

[rjbeep]

I found it in the logs:

2019-12-08 15:49:48.966 [INFO][26] About to update EPG
2019-12-08 15:49:48.966 [DEBUG][26] No /Users/USERNAME/.NPVR-data/scripts/UpdateEPG.sh file found
2019-12-08 15:49:48.974 [DEBUG][26] Will process xmltv file: ../EPG/xmltv.xml

still appreciate any other info re permissions, ownership, etc. to save me the experimenting if anybody has some experience with this on the Mac already.

thanks!

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hi folks,

could somebody provide an example of an UpdateEPG script for MacOS?

Here's what I run manually to create my xmltv.xml file....

export PERL5LIB=/sw/lib/perl5:/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
./zap2xml.pl -o ./xmltv.xml -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD -S 1 -D -A "new live" -E "amp apos quot lt gt" -O -F &

I just need to know exactly what file name to use in the .NPVR-data/scripts directory, plus any other specific requirements, in order to make sure it the NPVR server will run it for me every night.

thanks for any help!
rjb

[mvallevand]

You need to use fully qualified paths which you have as ./

An easy way to get them from the shell if you don't know them is

realname ./zap2xml.pl

Personally I'd create the xmltv file as

/Users/USERNAME/.NPVR-data/xmltv.xml

Don't forget to mark the sh file executable with chmod +x Update.Epg.sh

Martin

[rjbeep]

You need to use fully qualified paths which you have as ./

An easy way to get them from the shell if you don't know them is

realname ./zap2xml.pl

Personally I'd create the xmltv file as

/Users/USERNAME/.NPVR-data/xmltv.xml

Don't forget to mark the sh file executable with chmod +x Update.Epg.sh

Martin

Hi Martin,

Thanks very much for the tips!

best regards,
rjb

[mvallevand]

A couple of other tips

- When you have finished testing add -q to the zap2xml script to not send output to nrecord.log. You might want to consider > /dev/null just in case

- You don't want the & at the end of your script there is no need to get the console back.

Martin