[mythtv-users] Mythfill and Log entry's...???

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/20/06 16:09, A JM wrote:

>hmmm, this uses zap2it... and it takes a bit longer than a minute so
>I'm not sure what's going on with it?
>  
>
On my system, I have:
mythfilldatabaseLastRunStart: 2006-10-19 08:57
mythfilldatabaseLastRunEnd: 2006-10-19 08:57

0 minutes!*

For DataDirect, it happens to record the start of the download and the 
end of the download for each download.  Since DataDirect supports 
grabbing one day at a time, you get the start and end time for 
downloading one day's data.  That means it could potentially get set and 
reset 14 times for a single mfdb run.

For non-DataDirect XMLTV users, it records the start time, runs an 
external grabber (which may or may not support "--offset", but if so 
gets only one day's data and does the set/reset thing), then records the 
end time.  So, in both cases, it's simply "timing" the download--not the 
actual population of the data.

For EIT-only or "No-grabber" sources, it just sets them to the exact 
same time.*

In other words, providing the times to the end user is essentially 
meaningless "brain" candy (i.e. like eye-candy, but for your brain, to 
make it think it's getting lots of important data).  Since they get 
reset multiple times throughout a single run of mfdb, they're not useful 
measurements, and only someone who has dug through the source and who 
knows the specific configuration of the particular MythTV system on 
which it was run really knows how to interpret them.

>Just wondering if anyone else was seeing this problem or if it was
>specific to my box.
>  
>
You still haven't convinced me there is a problem (looks like it's just 
misinterpretation of the data).  Now, lack of data or incorrect data, 
OTOH, would be something to worry about.

Mike

*Mine is 0 minutes because I have 2 sources, one is my DataDirect source 
and the other--the second source--is a "No-grabber" source.  Therefore, 
after the DataDirect download(s), the start/end times get reset to the 
exact same time when mfdb populates the "No-grabber" source.