[mythtv-users] automatic mythfilldatabase not adding any new days

Drew Gilbert gilbert.drew at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 01:44:38 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 29 July 2008 01:14:06 Nick Morrott wrote:
> On 29/07/2008, Edmund <edmund.1 at dial.pipex.com> wrote:
> > Each night mythfilldatabase runs automatically from the backend but it
> >  doesn't add any new data at the end.
> >
> >  For example if there are 14 days data the next day it will only retrieve
> >  13 days and then 12 days. However if I run mythfilldatabase manually (
> >  but as the mythtv user) it works correctly bringing in 14 days.
>
> The behaviour you initially describe is frequently down to the Radio
> Times not updating the listings files, but that should be the case
> whether it is run automatically or manually. The
> http://xmltv.radiotimes.com/xmltv/94.dat file currently has data until
> 10/08/2008, which is 13 full days.
>
> Are any other uk_rt users seeing the same behaviour?

I can confirm similar behaviour, fails on automatic run but works fine run 
manually. it's not really bugged me enough yet to look much deeper into it.  
I'm running Arch Linux with xmltv 0.5.51.

Snippet of log file:
<code>
2008-07-27 20:18:33.507 Found 41 channels for source 1 which use grabber
2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Failed to run tv_grab_uk_rt --capabilities
2008-07-27 20:18:33.532 Grabbing XMLTV data using tv_grab_uk_rt is not 
supported
. You may need to upgrade to the latest version of XMLTV.
2008-07-27 20:18:33.727 MSqlQuery: SELECT MAX(endtime) FROM program p LEFT 
JOIN
channel c ON p.chanid=c.chanid WHERE c.sourceid= 1 AND manualid = 0;
2008-07-27 20:18:33.728 MSqlQuery: SELECT MAX(endtime) FROM program p LEFT 
JOIN
channel c ON p.chanid=c.chanid WHERE c.sourceid= 2 AND manualid = 0;
2008-07-27 20:18:33.728 Source 2 configured with no grabber. Nothing to do.
2008-07-27 20:18:33.729 MSqlQuery: UPDATE settings SET data ='2008-07-27 
20:18'
WHERE value='mythfilldatabaseLastRunStart' OR value 
= 'mythfilldatabaseLastRunEn
d'
2008-07-27 20:18:33.741 MSqlQuery: UPDATE settings SET data ='mythfilldatabase 
r
an, but did not insert any new data into the Guide for 1 of 2 sources. This 
can
indicate a potential grabber failure.' WHERE 
value='mythfilldatabaseLastRunStatu
s'
</code>

Drew


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