[mythtv-users] getting mythfilldatabase to update the data

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Wednesday 14 April 2004 15:31, Preston Crow wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 09:38, Daniel Sangenberg wrote:
> > I am using mythtv cvs from 2004-01-14 and i just noticed that the
> > schedule for tonight is wrong, the problem is that when it pulled
> > the data the first time it listed show x but now the correct
> > listing on the site xmltv uses is show y.
> >
> > My question is if there is a switch to allow mythfilldatabase to
> > update the data or is this bug ?
>
> Looks like this bug is still around.
>
> "24" has been rescheduled for Sunday evening due to the Presidential
> news conference.  The listings have been updated on zap2it.com.
> However, after running mythfilldatabase, it still has the old
> schedule listed.
>
> I'm running Myth 0.14 on Gentoo with xmltv-0.5.31.

This is by design.  By default, the schedule for Sunday will be updated 
when you run mythfilldatabase on Saturday.  IIRC, the default behavior 
is:

- grab tomorrow's listings
- grab <today + 8> day's listings
- grab any days in between that are missing; don't grab if we already 
have them

That might not be 100% correct, but you get the idea.  The first time 
you run mythfilldatabase on an empty database, it grabs 9 days.  After 
that, each run should only grab 2 days.  It does this to minimize the 
bandwidth impact on the listings provider.

-JAC