[mythtv-users] Problems with Listing Descriptions

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Aug 24 02:58:17 UTC 2015


On 08/22/2015 12:54 PM, Bret Clark wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem where Schedules Direct is sending the 
> right information, but my database is not populating correctly. For 
> example when I check raw data at Schedules Direct, I see the right 
> information
>
> <program id='EP000027100247'>
> <series>EP00002710</series>
> <title>M*A*S*H</title>
> <subtitle>Bottoms Up</subtitle>
> <showType>Series</showType>
> <originalAirDate>1981-03-02</originalAirDate>
> <syndicatedEpisodeNumber>Z415</syndicatedEpisodeNumber>
> *<description>Hawkeye becomes a villain after his practical joke on 
> Charles goes awry.</description>*
> </program>
>
> Yet when I query the DB the description is completely different
>
> > SELECT `title`, `subtitle`, `description`, `starttime`, `endtime`, 
> `category` FROM `mythconverg`.`program` AS `program` WHERE `subtitle` 
> = 'Bottoms Up';
> +---------+------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+----------+
> | title   | subtitle   | description | starttime           | 
> endtime             | category |
> +---------+------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------+---------------------+----------+
> | M*A*S*H | Bottoms Up | *Sound of Drums: When Indian poachers move 
> onto his land, a man refuses to move them off and stands alone in the 
> fight for their freedom. *| 2015-08-27 23:00:00 | 2015-08-27 23:30:00 
> | Sitcom   |
>
> It doesn't happen with every listing, but a good number of them. I 
> tried truncating the program table to clear it, but same problem still 
> happens.  The Title & Subtitle seem to be okay, just the description 
> is foo on a number of listings.
>
> Any suggestions?

Typically this is caused by setting up Schedules Direct as your listings 
grabber and enabling EIT (over-the-air) listings on the same channel, 
which then stomp all over the correct Schedules Direct data.  You can 
only have one listings source (EIT or Schedules Direct or XMLTV) per 
channel.

Mike


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