- Hey all, just wanted to make sure everyone saw that Schedules Direct is now out of beta testing and fully open for anyone who wants to sign up.
- With the release of 0.20.2 the other day, switching your Myth config over from using Zap2It labs for data is fairly easy. Please see this mailing list posting from Bruce for a short set of instructions - but it mainly just boils down to running mythtv-setup, changing the existing listings grabber to Schedules Direct, and putting in your new username + password (assuming you kept the same lineup config as on the old Labs website). Took me well under 10 minutes.
- I know, it's a bit hard to start paying for guide data. It was free for so long! I'm not sure how many of you were around during the bad old days of having to screen scrape to get listings data, but it was decidedly not fun. Constantly upgrading XMLTV to deal with website changes, etc. So, really, I don't think paying a little bit for a stable source of good, complete data is unreasonable. This was the best alternative we developers could come up with, given the lack of options available to us, but I realize that not everyone will agree.
- If you're on the fence about signing up due to feeling that the price is currently too high and you'd rather just wait, I'd like to ask you to please reconsider. SD is a non-profit org run by open source/free software developers for the benefit of the users - not out to make money on this stuff - and the monthly/yearly price of membership will be lowered to meet costs. But, how much the price goes down initially will really depend on how many users sign up during these first months.
- And finally, I'd like to thank everyone who has already become a member of SD - your support of this project is great. =) And if you haven't, please consider becoming a member of Schedules Direct. Thanks.
What Is MythTV?
MythTV is a Free Open Source digital video recorder (DVR) project distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL. It has been under heavy development since 2002, and now contains most features one would expect from a good DVR (and many new ones that you soon won't be able to live without).
If you are interested in learning more about MythTV (or just want to check out some screenshots), please take a look at MythTV In Detail.
Schedules Direct now open for membership.
MythTV 0.20.2 Released
- The major impetus for this release is the shutdown of TMS Labs; among other changes this adds Schedules Direct support.
- The 0.20.2 release notes have a list of the two major and many minor changes since 0.20.1. Since 0.20.1 never made it to a public release you may want to look at the 0.20.1 release notes as well.
- Standard release info:
- Grab the release from the download section and please at least try to read the docs before asking questions.
- The binary packages should hopefully be updated to 0.20.2 soon.
- See this links section for a list of complete linux distributions based around MythTV.
TV Listings update
As you may or may not be aware, Zap2It is
going to stop offering TV listings to
US/Canadian users as of September 1st. But, fear not! We've been busy
working on a solution for you. While it's still just a little bit too early to
post details, we do have an
announcement page posted with some
info. We're specifically in need of a lawyer and accountant to help with some
initial setup. So, keep watching
this space - we're hoping for a
painless transition come September.
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