[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase question
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Aug 30 17:22:37 UTC 2012
On 08/30/2012 11:44 AM, Scott Chevalley wrote:
> I'm using schedulesdirect and recently found that Verizon added BBC America HD
> so I went into my schedulesdirect account, saw the channel was disabled, so I
> enabled it, saved and then went to my 0.25 mythbuntu backend and ran
> mythfilldatabase to fetch the programming data for the new channel. I did
> finally get it to report success in mythweb backend status page today by running
The success/non-success warning in the backend status page (that you're
accessing via MythWeb) is useless/meaningless... Generally, it's only
when you have no (or a shrinking amount of data) that there's actually a
problem.
> mythfilldatabase --max-days 14
so this was unnecessary.
> and I have scheduling info on BBCA HD for today, but if I go to Saturday at 9pm
> (when the new season of Doctor Who starts) I see "No DATA".
>
> I've tried running mythfilldatabase with --dd-grab-all
This was the correct thing to do--it says, "Put in all the data that
Schedules Direct has, replacing whatever's currently there."
> and --do-channel-updates
and that's not something you want to do--it just says, "Feel free to
make dangerous changes to my channels which can prevent them from
working in MythTV." It's almost always the wrong thing to do.
> but nothing puts more than a day of scheduling for those channels...
>
> Is there something special I need to do to refresh the scheduling for that
> channe? I'm sure I'm just missing something simple.
That probably means you have a problem with your configuration (likely
your Video Source). It's quite possible that one of the
mythfilldatabase runs (such as the --do-channel-updates) caused it. For
example, you may have "shadow" channels that prevent you from seeing it.
I'd recommend you clean up your configuration to a blank state--doing
the Video Sources portion of
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034 --and
then re-create your Video Sources, re-Connect Inputs, rescan or refetch
channels (as appropriate, depending on your card type--noting that if
you use digital capture with any scannable input, meaning anything but
Firewire or CableCARD, you will need to scan and not use
mythfilldatabase/Fetch channels... to create the channels), then run
mythfilldatabase --dd-grab-all.
Mike
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