[mythtv-users] Limiting mythfilldatabase
Kyle Kelly
kyle at kylekelly.com
Mon Aug 30 16:20:55 EDT 2004
Gary Raposo wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been searching for an answer to this one for some time now with
> no luck. I've caved so here's my post...
>
> Running MythTV 0.15.1 with XMLTV 0.5.34 on RedHat 9 and everything
> works great. I'm a very happy user... except... mythfilldatabase is a
> little aggressive with its downloading via Zap2it's DataDirect.
>
> It seems that mythfilldatabase wants to grab 12 or 13 days worth of
> data. This wouldn't be a problem but for the fact that after about
> the 8th or 9th day the schedule starts filling up with "NO DATA".
> Zap2it doesn't have any data that far in advance yet they allow
> DataDirect clients to connect and download "NO DATA". Go figure! :)
>
> After a few weeks of this my entire program table is full of "NO DATA"
> and I have to wait until the day before a scheduled recording before
> mythfilldatabase pulls in the next day's program information. In
> other words, the scheduled recordings listing for anything more than
> today and tomorrow is useless.
>
> I know that tv_grab_na_dd will accept a --days option. I was hoping
> that mythfilldatabase would accept --graboptions "--days 7" but that
> doesn't seem to work. I simply want to limit my daily
> mythfilldatabase cron job to grabbing a maximum of 7 days of data.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Gary Raposo gary at raposo.ca
> Eschew obfuscation... http://www.raposo.ca
>
I've had similar problems, these should help:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/70645
and
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/81327
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