NextPVR fails to retrieve data from Schedules Direct

msfento1 · 2020-12-05, 04:21 AM

Did a fresh install of NextPVR v5.0.9.201026 on my media server (windows server 2019 datacenter) and supplied my Schedules Direct credentials, but no data appears to be retrieved from them.
I did some digging in the configuration file: \users\public\NPVR-data\config.xml and it looks OK, except that the URL for Schedules Direct appears to point to their deprecated API, v20140530 -- looking at github, it would seem that the this API version was superseded back in 2015 by v20141201.
I ran a wget against https://json.schedulesdirect.org and it returned:

wget https://json.schedulesdirect.org

StatusCode : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content : <html>
See API documentation at <a
href="https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201">https://github.com/Schedul
esDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201</a>
</html>

RawContent : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 186...
Forms : {}
Headers : {[Connection, keep-alive], [Vary, Accept-Encoding], [X-Frame-Options, SAMEORIGIN],
[X-Content-Type-Options, nosniff]...}
Images : {}
InputFields : {}
Links : {@{innerHTML=https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201;
innerText=https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201; outerHTML=<A href="htt
ps://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201">https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/
JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201</A>;
outerText=https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201; tagName=A;
href=https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201}}
ParsedHtml : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength : 186

Which appears to point to API version 20141201 as the current API -- A quick reading of the wiki shows that the 20140530 API was
retired in 2015. It seems unlikely that no one but me been using NextPVR with Schedules Direct. Is there were a facility within NextPVR, or
perhaps a utility to test connection to Schedules Direct? (I didn't see anything in the documentation about it.)

Or maybe I'm just missing something really obvious.

Thanks for any assistance!

Mark

mvallevand · 2020-12-05, 04:31 AM

The version number in the config.xml isn't used to avoid user error.

You need to send your zipped logs.

Martin

msfento1 · 2020-12-05, 04:46 AM

here they are:

mvallevand · 2020-12-05, 04:58 AM

Are you channels mapped to SD?

2020-12-02 00:01:49.204 [DEBUG][218] Doing EPG update from broadcast DVB/ATSC EPG

If not you need to go the Settings->Channels screen and under Advanced Tools (maybe a bad name because it is needed in many normal instances) choose Auto Map then map to your SD linue.

Martin

msfento1 · 2020-12-05, 05:14 AM

Well that looks much better.
Thank you.

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