[mythtv-users] special notice from Schedules Direct -- mythfilldatabase not running at suggested time?

[blisbell .]

i have the same thing and got the same email. myth is ignoring the
suggested times and keeps dling at midnight anyway.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:02 AM, jrh <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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