gwyrdd benyw's Journal: Tivo Log: part 4

Continuing with the tivocanada.com instructions:

SECTION 4 Create the Slice Files
SECTION 4.1 Linux setup
SECTION 4.1.1 Create Headend Slice File

% cd ~tivo/xmltv2tivo
% /writeguide BC123176-1.slice
% cd ~tivo/guidedir/slices
% ln -s ~tivo/xmltv2tivo/BC123176-1.slice

SECTION 4.1.2 Create Phone Slice File

% cd ~tivo/xmltv2tivo
% vi AC-604-v1.txt

Guide type=3
AreaCode/1/2646837/1 {
  CityPhoneNum: CityPhoneNum/11
  DBAreaCode: {604}
  Subrecord CityPhoneNum/11 {
      City: {Vancouver} PhoneNum: {6045551111
  }
}

% ./writeguide AC-604-v1.slice
% cd ~tivo/config-files
% ln -s ~tivo/xmltv2tivo/AC-604-v1.txt phone.slice
% cd ~tivo/guidedir/slices
% ln -s ~tivo/xmltv2tivo/AC-604-v1.txt

SECTION 4.1.3 Create Guide Data Slice File
SECTION 4.1.3.1 Create Guide Slice Manually

% cd ~tivo/guidedir
% tv_grab_na --days 1 --output ~tivo/guidedir/listings/test.xml
    Grabbed 1998 programs on 66 channels over 1 day(s) in 95 seconds
    not too bad, that's 21.03 programs/sec and 1.44 seconds/www page

It was suggested that I set up tv_imdb, so here we go:

% mkdir imdb
% tv_imdb --imdbdir imdb --prepStage all --download

wget somehow couldn't grab the imdb files,

insert notes about firewall problems here

...so I did it manually from another machine and scp'd them over, and ran:

% tv_imdb --imdbdir imdb --prepStage all
% tv_imdb --imdbdir imdb --output listings/test.imdb.xml listings/test.xml >&! imdb/tv_imdb.log
% ./parsexmlguide.pl --file listings/test.imdb.xml
% ls shows
12313 12314 incomplete
% ./mkslice 12313+1 > ./slices/BC123176_12313-12314.slice
% ls slices
BC123176-1.slice BC123176_12313-12314.slice

SECTION 4.1.3.2 Create Guide Slice Automatically

Postponed until I figure out what to do with apache directories and the emulator.

SECTION 4.1.4 Create Logo Slice File

% wget http://groups.yahoo.com/some/stuff/Logos/LG-merged-v1.slice.gz -O LG-merged-v1.slice.gz

It seems that tivoweb is required before the logos are useful: "Since the "logos" module is how you associate logos with a channel, there is no (easy) way to do this without tivoweb." Clearly someone needs to write a package to associate the logos with the various serverids from the headend/stations files.

SECTION 4.1.5 Create IR Slice File

I'm not using a digital cable box, so there's nothing to do here.