[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct: trickle down of updated listings (Beatles rebroadcast!)

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed Feb 12 04:35:58 UTC 2014


On 02/11/2014 06:10 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
> Well, this is weird. My normal mythfilldatabase run occurred at ~1 am 
> this morning and I was not seeing the Wednesday listing for the 
> Beatles show, so I ran mythfilldatabase --dd-grab-all manually and it 
> showed up. However, looking at the last run status in mythweb shows 
> this: "Last mythfilldatabase run started on Tue 11 Feb, 1:03 PM and 
> ended on Tue 11 Feb, 1:03 PM. mythfilldatabase ran, but did not insert 
> any new data into the Guide for 2 of 2 sources.

New means "additional", not "different."

> This can indicate a potential grabber failure." But it absolutely did 
> update Wednesday's listings. Is this a bug in the status message? I 
> don't see that message when it runs at the suggested times. Or is it 
> just saying it didn't add any info for additional days? The other 
> weird thing is the start time is wrong. I actually started it at 
> 12:56:50 and it ended at 13:03:51, but it shows start and end both at 
> 1:03 pm.

And the warning is nearly always meaningless (as >90% of the time it 
appears it's not a problem, and when there is a problem, people 
generally figure it out by the fact that they only have 2 days of 
listings left or whatever--not because of the warning).

Mike


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