Yahoo Go TV to XMLTV (via API)

[Bondja]

what zip code and provider are you using?

Thank you. Oz I am in zipcode 64155 and I use Direct TV. I am also running the lastest version of GB-PVR on a Sony Laptop with 1.5ghz, and 1GB of ram. The OS is XP Professional Service Pack 2.

[-Oz-]

I tried running it an get a runtime error 53, file not found. I copied all the files from the zip file into gbpvr\Third Party\yapi2xml.

Jeff

What is your zip code and provider and what had you done when it errored? That is just a silly vb error that I can't use unless I know how far you had gotten in the process.

Maybe I'll need to add logging next.

[-Oz-]

Thank you. Oz I am in zipcode 64155 and I use Direct TV. I am also running the lastest version of GB-PVR on a Sony Laptop with 1.5ghz, and 1GB of ram. The OS is XP Professional Service Pack 2.

I downloaded listings for DirecTV Kansas City and have a 48mb XML file which should be legit. You need to set your capture source to XMLTV and then point it to the created xml file.

Does the xml file get created.

[drlava]

logging is definitely a good idea.

One thing that another yahoo API author (for the OTA program) had to do was do download retries if the downloaded file was corrupt or 0 bytes, which happens more often than you'd think for new users.

this is coming along now, though!

[pBS]

great work...now i get ota, Digital, plus my dish network channels, ALL IN ONE GUIDE! too cool...digitals never showed up before..

but yes, i had same prob with the runtime error 53...it happens when the data doesn't download..[quite often] as it does with all the utils that access yahoo data...i think they have network problems..
but i usualy just wait a few seconds and retry and all is well..
it is kinda annoying when the error pops up and it exits tho..
i agree, we need a retry..i used a batch file to do it..

Code:

:start
yapi2xml.exe update
ping -n 8 -w 680 0.0.0.1>>NUL
call :sizeit yapiguid.xml
if %size% LEQ 1200 goto :start
goto :eof
:sizeit
set /a size=%~z1 + 0

but it doesn't work cuz of the exit...

[Bondja]

I downloaded listings for DirecTV Kansas City and have a 48mb XML file which should be legit. You need to set your capture source to XMLTV and then point it to the created xml file.

Does the xml file get created.

Yes it is created. My file is around 41,000kb. Do I need additional software to use this tool? Thank you.

[taz]

Just tried to install the latest version (have not installed previous versions). The xml file appears to be complete and correct. However, in GBPVR (and PVRX2), only a handful of the channels have data. Also, some of the channels do not show up at all and they are no longer in order of channel number. I have attached the log files for gbpvr. I tried to attach a zip file of the e xml file generated for zip 68135 Cox Analog but kept getting a database error on the attachment window. Not sure what is happening there. It is just over a 1Mb file..

[-Oz-]

Yes it is created. My file is around 41,000kb. Do I need additional software to use this tool? Thank you.

The xml file is ready for use by GBPVR.

[-Oz-]

i'll make the retry thing my first priority. Have to figure out how to know if the download fails or is corrupt first. Hopefully by Friday I'll have a solution.

Taz: Can you email me the xml file, I found the error in the log but need the xml file to match it up. I've PMed you my email address.

[pBS]

i just use file size...if it's over 1 meg assume it's ok...cuz usually i just get a 170k file when it didn't download properly...[so can't test for file existance, cuz there is one even when it fails]

it's working really well for me so far..