If you have been following along with the Paul's Tech MythTV project, you are aware that Zap2It Labs is no longer providing updated TV listings directly. I noticed that I had about 6 days of TV listings left in my program guide today, so I decided to make the switch to SchedulesDirect.org. In order to help you with the changeover, I am posting what I went through so you can replicate it.

I did the following from the command line to update my installation:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-proposed restricted main multiverse universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -t feisty-proposed mythtv mythweather mythweb

sudo mythtv-setup

The first line adds the proposed updates repository to your repository list. The ubuntu guys recently added the 0.20.2 update which includes SchedulesDirect support. The next line goes out and gets the updates. The third line installs them. The last line is so you can change your settings from Zap2It to SchedulesDirect.

Before you run mythtv-setup, you will want to get an account with SchedulesDirect.org, of course. Once inside it, go to Video Sources, select your source(s) and change your listings grabber to SchedulesDirect, and change your User ID and Password if needed. Hit Retrieve Lineups. Then select the correct Lineup for this video source. When you exit mythtv-setup, it will probably ask you if you want to run mythfilldatabase, which you should. Your account with SchedulesDirect should be set up much like it was with Zap2It.

When I had finished with this, my listings were all there, but some of my other stuff stopped working. Turns out I had to run the update for MythNews, MythGallery, etc. Easy enough to do:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

And that should do it. The good news is that my MythWeather is working properly now too.

If you are having different issues, check out the following links and forum threads for more info that might help you.

SchedulesDirect Forum Ubuntu Thread

Ubuntu Forums ScheduleDirect Thread