[mythtv-users] Manual, or less frequent, EIT crawl?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/18/2010 05:53 PM, Francesco Peeters wrote:
> On 6/18/10 01:44 , Kingsley Turner wrote:
>> On 18/06/10 06:23, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>> Out of curiosity, just how much data do you get over EIT? Last I checked
>>> around here, I only got a couple hours of data from most of my local
>>> providers.
>>>        
>> 7 days (NSW, Australia)
>> But I also used to get at least that much in Switzerland (Basel) too 
>> ... maybe 14 days(?)
>>
>> So you can see why running EIT scan constantly is a bit of a waste of 
>> power.
> But others in Europe, like myself, only get Current and Next, so once 
> an hour would not be helpful... Configurable intervals would be more 
> useful, I guess. But because of that behavior, I just use XMLTV 
> instead... That gets me a week and runs once at 1am every day...


http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5754

But I still maintain that the OP is doing himself a disservice by not 
paying $20 for a Schedules Direct membership so he can get free, 
extremely-high-quality, detailed, long-term listings that MythTV can use 
to schedule input usage most effectively.  But if all he wants is a 
glorified VCR with a list of what plays in the next 8 hours or so, I 
suppose using EIT in the US will work.

Mike