[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase

Mike McMullin mwmcmlln at mnsi.net
Fri Mar 4 05:22:55 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 13:58 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/03/2011 01:49 AM, Mike McMullin wrote:
> >    Can someone please tell me what I'm seeing in the below output from
> > mythfilldatabase:
> >
> > 1: Data refresh needed because only 0 of 0 channels have at least one
> > program listed for day @ offset 10 from 8PM - midnight.   Previous day
> > had had 65 channels with data in that time period
> >
> > 2: This DataDirect listing source is shared by 2 MythTV lineups.
> 
> As for your question about why it's saying data refresh is needed, 
> that's an algorithm that determines whether or not to request 
> information for a specific day from Schedules Direct.  A /much/ better 
> approach is for you to tell MythTV to get all the information in a 
> single call.  It's lower-resource for TMS (since it's done as a single 
> request--instead of up to 14 separate, but similar requests that require 
> similar processing).  It also means that you'll always have the 
> most-up-to-date information possible.
> 
> See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/449426#449426 for 
> more details, including how to properly enable it.

 Okay I now got: mythfilldatabase arguements: :--dd-grab-all

  And thanks for getting me to look at this, the time frame for grabbing
the info needed to be set to something resembling system normal up
hours.



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