[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase

[Daryl McDonald]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
wrote:

> On 01/19/2015 09:24 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>
>> Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 12:31:16 AM, Mitchell wrote:
>>>
>>>  I have setup a new ubuntu box and installed the mythbuntu packages.
>>>> for some reason mythfilldatabase in mythweb shows:
>>>> Last mythfilldatabase run started on Mon Jan 19 2015, 12:03 AM and
>>>> ended  on Mon Jan 19 2015, 12:04 AM. mythfilldatabase ran, but did
>>>> not insert  any new data into the Guide for 1 of 1 sources. This can
>>>> indicate a  potential grabber failure.
>>>> There's guide data until 2015-01-24 02:00:00 (5 day(s)).
>>>> DataDirect Status: Your subscription expires on Sat Jun 20 2015 8:31 AM
>>>>
>>>> but when i run the program manually it does insert data.  What would
>>>> cause this?
>>>>
>>> Whenever I've seen this message it's because I've run mythfilldatabase
>> prior to Myth running it. Next run by Myth, without my doing anything, is
>> successful!
>>
>
> Right, the message is basically saying, "No more data than was previously
> in the database was written."  So, if you run mythfilldatabase again before
> your guide source has added new data, you will get that message.  That's
> why it says, "This *can* indicate a potential grabber failure."
>
> However, IMHO, the message causes more problems than it solves (and a lot
> of needless worries) and should be removed.  I don't know of any case where
> that message caused a user to notice that there was a problem with their
> grabber.  Instead, users notice problems when their 2-weeks of listings
> shrink to 10 days of listings or whatever.  If we must have a warning, I'd
> much rather MythTV notice how much data is usually there (max 14
> days/average 12 days/...) and then warn when it drops below the average or
> more than 2 days short or something similar.
>
> Mike
>
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Exactly, its a no panic message, wait and see
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