[mythtv-users] Important information concerning DataDirect's outage

Blammo blammo.doh at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 10:41:43 EST 2005


On 12/29/05, Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com> wrote:
> Bruce Markey wrote:
> > Zap2It appears to be suffering some system problems today. This
> > may cause unfortunate problems when running "mythfilldatabase"
>
> It appears that Zap2It was delivering listings again by about
> 1am PST although the forums at labs.zap2it.com still don't work.
>
> If you are missing data for Friday (or today), running mfdb
> manually should fix the problem. If you are using SVN, update
> to current for a fix which will verify that the successful
> grab actually has new program data before clearing old data.
>
> If you have good data today, it may still be a good idea to
> make a backup of your "program" table in case Zap2It's problems
> continue.


For what it's worth, all attempts at mfdb have been failining for the
past couple days, including today.. I've been gone, and didn't see it
till this morning. Do we have any news from zap2it? All my guides say
"no data" today. :(


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