We’ve been using zap2xml.pl to pull TV listings into our MythTV installation for years. Yesterday, we noticed there wasn’t much scheduled to record. When I went to investigate it today, I found that there weren’t listings past Thursday. Running the zap2xml script manually, I see a bunch of 503 Backend unavailable errors. Checked the URL and, yeah, that’s a legit error.

So I had to quickly switch to a different source for listings. I found a Github project that generates the XML file we need. The same mythfilldatabase command (/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase –file –sourceid 2 –xmlfile /tmp/listings.xml) pulled in the data without error. And, now that there are programs listed, MythTV plans to record things again.