[mythtv-users] Myth fill database only fills one day of recordings

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Jan 7 19:05:39 UTC 2009


On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:57 AM, Quinten Steenhuis wrote:

>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm new to MythTV. When I run Mythfilldatabase --update-all, it
>>> appears to download 2 weeks of recordings, but when I return to
>>> MythFrontend, only 1 day of schedules is present. Any ideas as to
>>> where I should be looking to fix this? I've tried turning on
>>> "automatically run mythfilldatabase", and run the command manually
>>> several times.
>>
>> Can you please describe where you see only 1 day of schedules?
>> If this is actually the problem, make sure EIT scanning is off on
>> those sources that are using schedules direct.
>
> Okay, I had turned on EIT scanning. I didn't realize that the two  
> couldn't be combined. I will try that and see if it fixes the  
> problem tonight, thank you.
>
> I noticed the problem when browsing the guide, trying to search for  
> recordings in the future, and when going to Information Center/ 
> Status in MythFrontend. I ran mythfilldatabase on the commandline,  
> and saw that it was downloading data for more than just one day.

They can be combined, but as you have discovered the EIT data  
overrides the schedules direct data. I guess it does this because EIT  
data is potentially more current and would be beneficial for things  
like sports which can run overtime. That's just a guess, though. The  
answer is to trust the SD data and just leave it at that. You pay for  
the listings so you should use them. :)

-Brad



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