[mythtv-users] Different mythfilldatabase commands for different sources

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Ian,

Wednesday, February 10, 2016, 6:14:46 PM, you wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> You can try in your cronjpb to run it in two parts as I wrote earlier.
>>> First run the grabber putting the output in a tmp-file en the
>>> mythfilldatabase importing from that file. You then can unset the
>>> grabber in your source. This is how I always do it and I see no
>>> interference in between the sources.
>>>
>>> `--quiet --config-file <home>/.mythtv/<source-name>.conf --output
>>> /tmp/<some-tmp-name>`
>>>
>>> `mythfilldatabase --file --xmlfile /tmp/<some-tmp-name> --sourceid
>>> <the-source-id>`
>>> You can add log options like for instance:
>>> `--syslog local5`
>>>
>>
>>
>> I've setup up the two part cron job. Will see how it goes for a few days.
>>

> One quick note...the UK xml grabbing run for the HLS channel ran at
> midnight as per my cron job. The information screen said that the next
> suggested run time will be at midnight...there was no automatic run of the
> Schedules Direct mythfilldatabase so that listings info was not updated.

> Is there a possibility that the regular random mythfilldatabase run for the
> Schedules Direct channels won't get triggered because the suggested time
> will always be at the cron time?

I don't know. Also not what you changed in Mythtv. I run them all
manually through cron and have nothing defined in MythTV.
What I think is that is needed is to leave in mythtv everything as it
was before you added the UK source. So leave mythfilldatabase to run
automatically and leave SD defined in your US source, but do NOT
define atlas in the UK source. Set that source as not using anything.
The automatic run then won't bother with it and as I think should not
look at the time it was run outside mythtv.
If you have it set as I describe and it still does look at the manual
atlas run, the only thing I can think of is to also bring the SD run
to cron and disable the automatic run. Leave it however defined in the
source, so you can do a simple single command run in cron.


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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