[mythtv-users] Changing Mythfilldatabase runtime

[Karl Newman]

> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Michael <mythtv at blandford.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  On 04/02/2015 06:39 AM, Karl Newman wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just got a nastygram from schedulesdirect asking me to change when
>>>> myth pulls data from sd from midnight to some other time.  I have
>>>> absolutely no problem doing this, but just don't know how.
>>>>
>>>>  From what I can remember, it's not set up in mythtv-setup and there
>>>> are no cron jobs for it.  How does one go about changing the time from
>>>> midnight to something else?
>>>>
>>>>  Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>  Yes, I got the same one. For as long as it's been available I've used
>>> the "use suggested time" option and it always appeared to be somewhat
>>> randomized. But I just checked and sure enough it's been grabbing at 12:00
>>> am. I suspect this may be a problem with the suggested time generator at
>>> Schedules Direct. Ah, the front page at Schedules Direct has this notice:
>>>
>>> April 1st 2015
>>> email about midnight data polls
>>>
>>> We've gotten lots of feedback from our email about polling for data at
>>> midnight. It seems there is some timezone confusion between the MythTV
>>> scheduler and our suggested time generator.
>>>
>>> If you're already using the auto-scheduler, nothing needs to be done.
>>> We'll fix it on our end... and sorry about the confusion.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a thread on the schedulesdirect forum as well if people want to
>>> follow it over there.
>>>
>>> http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2666
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> Thanks all for the information. At the time of posting, the sticky was
>> there in the thread, but not much else out.  It seems like a lot of people
>> are seeing this and it's becoming more of a topic.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Aaron Klein <klein.aaron at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I got the message and my system seems to check around 2am local time.  I
> couldn't see where to tell myth when to run the update schedule.  It used
> to run at different times but with one of the recent updates it looks like
> my system always checks now at 2am local time.
>

Fixed top posting (kinda). SchedulesDirect has made some changes on their
end and this appears to be resolved, at least temporarily. My next
scheduled time is something like 9:45 am tomorrow.

Karl
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