[mythtv-users] Does mythfilldatabase apply updates to program guide info?

[Christopher McEwan]

In my experience of mythfilldatabase it does all of the those things.
Dont worry about the duplicate record errors, it should still be
working just fine.

It probably is dependant on tv grabber, I use tv_grab_uk_rt for reference.


On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 05:52:03 +0000, Phill Edwards
<phill_edwards at hotmail.com> wrote:
> When you run mythfilldatabase does it contain smarts to update existing
> program information? In other words:
> 
> - if the details (whether title or start/end time) for a program have
> changed does it find that program and update it?
> - if a program has been cancelled and replaced by another program does it
> handle that?
> - if it finds a "hole" in the program guide (eg missing 02:00 - 05:00 guide
> details for a particular day) but now has that info in the latest guide xml
> file, does it fill the hole?
> 
> I have been assuming it does have these smarts - otherwise you'd only ever
> retrieve the guide info for 1 day 7 days from now on a daily basis rather
> than getting the next 7 days every day. However, when I run mythfilldatabase
> (from the command line) I get hundreds of duplicate record errors so I'm
> wondered if it only ever inserts new & deletes old data without trying to
> update program info that's already there.
> 
> BTW - in case this is dependent on what tv grabber you're using, I'm using
> tv_grab_au.
> 
> Regards,
> Phill
> 
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~CM