Mailing List Archive: Has anything changed with Schedules Direct listings, or is it just me?

My listings stopped working a while back and I just got around to trying to
fix it. I thought it would be one of my previous issues --
subscription expired or password change. But, both of those are fine and
nothing else appears to be incorrect. So, before diving further into
debugging, I wanted to make sure that there wasn't some change in the
listings service that I missed.

My mythtv version is quite old now.. I think it's 0.30 (on LinHES R8.6.1)
-- I've been in the "if it's not broke" mode with MythTV. Has anything
changed in Schedules DIrect or related protocols that I need to account for?

Mythfilldatabase doesn't give much in terms of reasons, but does log the
failure. "DataDirect: Failed to get data: Download error". Any
tips/suggestions?

On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 10:35?PM Tom Harris <thom.j.harris@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mythfilldatabase doesn't give much in terms of reasons, but does log the failure. "DataDirect: Failed to get data: Download error". Any tips/suggestions?

A lot has changed since v30. It would appear you may
be using the (legacy) DataDirect EPG source (recent
versions of MythTV only support the XMLTV feed
available by XMLTV grabbers accessing the Schedules
Direct JSON feeds).

The error handling for the (legacy) DataDirect EPG
download was not ideal. The most common issue
is that your Schedules Direct account has expired
or the password is incorrect (and as I recall, in both
cases, the error message was essentially download
failed).

It is at least worth going to the Schedules Direct
site and making sure your account is in good
standing.

You might also consider moving to the XMLTV
feeds, which more people here are likely to have
experience with (although that likely cause some
issues with your existing channels and feeds
(there were a lot of posts here and some on the
wiki about how to convert all those things years
ago).

Good luck.
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