Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

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wizgnome
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by wizgnome »

It is working again today :D

Hope they fixed it, permanently. I wonder what happened?
jfarid
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by jfarid »

wizgnome wrote:It is working again today :D

Hope they fixed it, permanently. I wonder what happened?
Still not working for me :( . Mind telling me what you did to get it working?
alanbirtles
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by alanbirtles »

its an intermittent problem, at the time of posting there is data there
IanJ
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by IanJ »

Hi all,

1:45pm Sun. 24th Oct.

Is RadioTimes down at the moment...............was working fine last night, but I was making changes today by adding an XMLTV import and now am getting zero results.
Stripped my channels right down to a wee test and still broken.

Ian.

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13:37:38 - Starting pass 1 of grabber UK_RT
13:37:38 -    Please note that all data downloaded with this grabber is copyright of the Radio Times website (http://www.radiotimes.com) and the use of the data is restricted to personal use only. Also be aware that this service may not remain free and in future may become a paid-for service
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel 3e
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel 4Music
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel ABC News Now
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Al Jazeera English
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Alibi
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Alibi +1
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Animal Planet
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Animal Planet +1
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Asia 1
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Asianet
13:37:39 -    Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel Attheraces
13:37:39 -    Clearing cache
13:37:39 -    Finished pass 1 of grabber UK_RT
13:37:39 -    0 programs found
13:37:39 - Combining Grabber Programs
13:37:39 -    Finished Combining Grabber Programs
13:37:39 - Writing XML
13:37:39 - No programs found, aborting xml writing
alanbirtles
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by alanbirtles »

nothing new there, some days it works some days it doesn't. If you want it fixed email radio times
IanJ
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by IanJ »

Thanks Alan, bit a newbie to all this.

Ian.
IanJ
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by IanJ »

HI,

Been doing a bit of testing here and xmltv.exe is able to grab data from RadioTimes and create an XML file, but XMLTV GUI isn't. I presume both pieces of software use the same source?

Is there anything I'm missing?

Ian.
[newbie]
alanbirtles
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by alanbirtles »

try turning off caching in the grabber settings, there is a chance it has cached a broken set of files from earlier
alanbirtles
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by alanbirtles »

just tried xmltv.exe and got no data, it also has a cache so may have cached some listings from a time when there were some. to check whether listings are available go to http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/92.dat, if all you see is a copyright notice then there are no listings at the moment
IanJ
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by IanJ »

Jings!......that explains why my XML file is missing some data, and why my EPG (Mediaportal) is an hour out for some channels only. It's a new install and the first EPG I loaded was yesterday when RT was working but I had the time offset wrong. So now with only partial data from RT I'm only getting some channels at the correct time.

Tearing my hair out.....but hopefully thats the reasons.

Thanks again for a great prog.

Ian.
goelectric
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Radio times down?

Post by goelectric »

Hi,

I am no longer getting data from http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/....
09:11:50 - Radio Times returned a zero sized reply for channel
is this affecting everyone or have I broken something?

ATB
alanbirtles
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Re: Custom lua script and UK grabbers not working

Post by alanbirtles »

no its not just you, try searching before posting :wink:
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