[mythtv-users] zap2it - rsync updates?

Jamin W. Collins jcollins at asgardsrealm.net
Thu Oct 19 16:15:04 UTC 2006


Derek Battams wrote:
> 
> Since Myth grabs listings up to two weeks in advance, it's likely that  
> the listings were different at the time they were grabbed for the  
> day/channel in question.  Myth won't update this Sunday's listings  
> until Saturday's mythfilldatabase run, at which time the listings will  
> be updated.  Zap2It's web site reflects changes to the listings as  
> soon as they are updated by the source, whereas Myth won't update the  
> listings until the day before, unless you tell mfd otherwise, which is  
> not recommended as it puts an unnecessary strain on the Zap2It servers.

Has anyone talked with Zap2It about possibly providing something like an 
rsync interface for retrieving channel listings?  This could effectively 
allow people to keep their listings completely up to date while limiting 
the load on their servers.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins


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