[mythtv-users] Anyone else have guide data problems? (SchedulesDirect only)

[James Pifer]

> Actually, let me be slightly more precise here.  Tivo downloads don't
> happen at the same time each day for each unit; they tend to rotate
> around the schedule.  Each download clearly contains data for n days
> out, -including- the current day, since I've seen updates actively
> change schedules only a few hours out.  Presumably the updates are
> batch-created in some fashion for a given lineup and all units that
> grab the update will get the same one---even if, by the time they grab
> it, some of the scheduling data applies to -things that have already
> aired- by then.  This is perfectly plausible if the unit is grabbing
> the current day's listing---unless all units grab that day's listing
> the moment before it becomes valid, some of the listing data will
> necessarily be retrospective.
> 
> In this case, it looks like DSC made up their minds -just- in time to
> get it into an update that went out roughly the same day as the
> episode aired, and my tivo (and maybe yours) wound up grabbing and
> processing the relevant update only -after- the episode had actually
> aired.  It then applied the update, which presumably consists (among
> other things) of a set of mappings from tivo-specific showing
> identifiers to human-readable names, and I'll bet that there's only
> a single occurrence of each string anywhere in that dataset (and
> everything in the tivo then points at those strings) to save RAM and
> so forth.  So when the update got applied, shazam---that showing
> identifier now pointed to the updated string, regardless of whether
> the identifier was being used to name things in the upcoming schedule
> or things already in the recording database.

I admit that I don't know much about what you describe with the episode
IDs. I have noticed the re-airing of the same show with a slightly
different name, specifically the ones you mentioned. 

Here's what's strange around BPS. The day this happened my myth server
showed that is was BPS and not IGFSJ, while the the web sites said it
was IGFSJ. Even after I did refresh-all and refresh-today mine still
said it was BPS. I believed the web sites and not my own mythtv, because
that's what usually happens. I was shocked when BPS aired.

That makes me wonder if zap2it had updated some parts of the "operation"
while their web site had not updated? Later that night zap2it did show
BPS as the episode, so it did update eventually. 

I've had episode issues with Dirty Jobs, Mythbusters, Star Trek Voyager,
plus a couple of my kids shows. 

James