[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct Download Failures

[Dan Wilga]

On 2/9/15 3:22 PM, john.baab at gmail.com wrote:
> I'm having issues where my SD fails on most attempts, logs indicate a 
> download error: http://paste.ubuntu.com/10147508/
>
> I'm using the following options for mythfilldatabase: "--dd-grab-all 
> -v network,file --loglevel debug"
>
> Notice I added more logging in order to get a better look at the 
> download issues.  I am letting the grabber suggest a time as well.
>
> MythTV Version: 2:0.27.4+fixes.20150116.3b43903-0ubuntu0mythbuntu2
>
> I have verified this isn't a user error, it runs fine as my user and 
> if I su to the mythtv user as well.  Not sure where else to look now.
I was having a problem where the first attempt after a long pause (an 
hour?) would fail, but if I tried again after a failure it would work. 
At the suggestion of others on this list, I ended up using this script 
as a wrapper around mythfilldatabase proper, and have not had any 
problems since:

#!/bin/sh
ping -c 3 dd.schedulesdirect.org
/usr/local/bin/mythfilldatabase $*

It makes no sense to me that it would be necessary to ping the server 
first, but it does work.
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