[mythtv-users] special notice from Schedules Direct -- mythfilldatabase not running at suggested time?
jrh
jharbestonus at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 14:02:29 UTC 2015
I’m Looking at the Program Schedule Downloading Options, I have the following info:
Automatically update program listings - checked
Guide data program: /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
No guide data arguments
Guide data program execution start: 0
Guide data program execution end: 23
Run guide data program at time suggested by the grabber - checked.
Apr 2 00:00:07 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[3191]: I CoreContext housekeeper
.cpp:674 (Run) Queueing HouseKeeperTask 'MythFillDB'.
Apr 2 00:00:07 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[3191]: I HouseKeeping housekeepe
r.cpp:133 (Run) Running HouseKeeperTask 'MythFillDB'.
Apr 2 00:00:35 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[3191]: I HouseKeeping housekeepe
r.cpp:151 (Run) HouseKeeperTask 'MythFillDB' Finished Successfully.
In the DB, i see the following:
mythfilldatabaseLastRunEnd 2015-04-02T04:00:31Z
mythfilldatabaseLastRunStart 2015-04-02T04:00:31Z
mythfilldatabaseLastRunStatus Successful.
MythFillDatabaseLog
MythFillDatabasePath /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
MythFillEnabled 1
MythFillGrabberSuggestsTime 1
MythFillMaxHour 23
MythFillMinHour
MythFillPeriod 1
MythFillSuggestedRunTime 2015-04-03T23:04:34Z
I do see that I am getting a suggested run time, but it looks like MythTV is ignoring it even though I am it set to use the suggested time.
I’ll check with the Mythtv mailing list.
Regards!
> On Apr 1, 2015, at 7:40 PM, Schedules Direct <noreply at schedulesdirect.org> wrote:
>
>
> Our logs indicate you are one of the people downloading data from the
> SD Data Direct service around the top of a midnight hour.
>
> You were probably trying to be nice and pick an underutilized time for
> both you and us, but guess what... many people had the same idea. Our
> top-of-the-hour load counts for U.S. midnight times are about 40 times
> our normal load!
>
> In addition, it hurts you too, because that's when our data is the
> least fresh.
>
> There is also no point in downloading multiple times a day.
> There are no longer any mid-day updates.
>
> The best thing to do is use your application's auto-schedule function
> (if it has it... MythTV does). That uses an API to obtain
> a suggested time to download.
>
> If you do want to pick a new time for a cron job, you can view the
> output of that function at http://schedulesdirect.org/getack
>
> To make it easier for you, here's a random time for your cron job:
> 14:28 (hour is 00-24 not am/pm)
>
> Please update your scheduled job. The worst thing you can do is
> keep it the way it is.
>
> If you any questions, you can contact us via the forum or at
> admin at schedulesdirect.org
>
> Thanks,
> Schedules Direct
>
>
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