[mythtv-users] Listings after 9pm eventually go missing.

Kyle Kelly kyle at kylekelly.com
Sun May 30 22:41:38 EDT 2004


Richard Gibert wrote:

>I was just looking at this issue.
>
>It seems that DataDirect is willing to serve up incomplete data to the
>mythtv grabber.  This means that some days at the later end of the
>schedule from the initial grab (when setting up myth) have a lot of NO
>DATAs that will not be updated by mythfilldatabase until the day prior
>to that day actually being recorded (when mythfilldatabase refreshes the
>guide data one last time).
>
>With the current mythtv cvs mythfilldatabase, "--dd-grab-all" will
>re-grab all the guide data from DD.  It's commented out in the
>mythfilldatabase source, so you'll have to uncomment it if you'd like to
>use it.  I just ran --dd-grab-all on my system and a lot of the NO DATAs
>have been filled in, so it's a good temporary solution (although I'm
>sure DD would be happier if we didn't keep re-grabbing all the data).
>
>Richard
>
>  
>
Thanks, sounds like a good temporary solution for the time being, easier 
than re-setting up the datasource every few days.

Obviously we would like a better one though, so if anyone is in contact 
with the zap2it people already maybe they could look into this for us.

Thanks.



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