As some time ago our beloved grabbers using teveblad.be stopped working, we started looking for alternatives.
Some are using mc2xml now, which is unbelievably fast and has all the info you'll ever want.
I hacked together a script that used the Skynet-tv guide to get me going again.
Not all info was available, only dates & names, no extra info.
But it worked!

Recently I also added support for a second site.
Having already put some effort into this, I was thinking about making it a little project.
If some people start using it and provide some feedback ... svn ... bugtracking ... feature requests ...
You can find a copy here

There's only one thing that concerns me.
If a lot of people start using the same site for grabbing data, the sites will take precautions too.
I like the idea of the Mythportal guys: they put the guide online and everyone can download.
Only grabbed from the site once, but downloaded many times from another.
Well, this used to be the mythportal-way of doing it, after tvblad changed things, they were, in a very subtile way, checking wether people would pay for a guide.

So, if people are interested, contact me, maybe we can find a way to make the data available for everyone and to not scare the tvguide-sites too much.

So, we received some Zenoss goodies today!

John , you won't be the only one being spotted on conferences with a Zenoss Tshirt anymore! :)





Looks like Bart, Dieter and Kris have found the pics too!

luconfig: ERROR: Filesystem / fstype ufs,mir does not supported..
ERROR: Configuration of BE failed.


They should get a new tshirt !

Is available.
Have a look at the What's new page.

They finally made it possible to have zones on ZFS!
Well, it was already working, it just wan't supported :)
As a Solaris admin, you surely will have had following thoughts:
1. They have zones support!
2. They Have ZFS support!
3. Let's put zones on ZFS!
So it seems this really wasn't a good idea as it is only supported in update 6 and above ...
Or am I misunderstanding 'Solaris Containers on a ZFS root file system'
as it doesn't really matter for a zone wether it's installed on the root FS or not ...
Or is it ...
Someone, enlighten me!

I've seen lots of posts regarding the latest teveblad.be updates causing the grabbers not to work anymore. Heard things about some user agents being blocked ... (didn't check myself, thought it was also content-wise)
Xmltv's grabber for Belgium didn't work anymore, mythportal.be had it's own, that failed too.
A lot of people switched to mc2xml .
Granted, it does spit out a nice usable guide with good info!
But how long will it last? The increase in usage will, sooner or later, be noticed by some MS-guys I guess :)
EIT via DVB seems not quite usable too according to mythportal.be, only info about the current program is available.

I used an older version of jxml (can't find the url atm), which also used teveblad.
(The developer changed this into a payable prog some time ago, the older versions were still working though ...)
Hence, I had no EPG source anymore too ...
A couple of years ago I actually thought about writing my own grabber, started writing but never finished.
Due to the quite critical and urgent situation last week, a rewrite is now feeding data into the mythtv-db.
It's perl, it's quite ugly, it does not contain descriptions (working on that one), but it works. If you're interested, let me know, I'll put it online anyway when I think it's decent enough :)



Note:
The guide provided by the mythportal-guys is working again too. (Thank you
Kris for noticing :)
So in meantime, I'm also using that one.