[mythtv-users] Different mythfilldatabase commands for different sources

[Ian Evans]

On Jan 31, 2016 6:08 PM, "Hika van den Hoven" <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hoi Ian,
>
> Sunday, January 31, 2016, 11:40:06 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On Jan 31, 2016 4:49 PM, "Hika van den Hoven" <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hoi Ian,
> >>
> >> Sunday, January 31, 2016, 9:38:42 PM, you wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm in North America and use Schedules Direct and the recommended
> >> > dd-grab-all for the listings.
> >>
> >> > I am looking at adding Metabroadcast to the mix to grab the listings
for
> >> > one UK channel via HLS. The mythtv wiki page for Metabroadcast says
it
> >> > should be run with a refresh 0-99.
> >>
> >> > Is there a way to specify different mythfilldatabase commands for
> > different
> >> > sources? And is there a guide for mixing grabbers like this?
> >>
> >> > Thanks
> >>
> >> See mythfilldatabase --help
> >> If your data is in xmltv format you use something like:
> >>
> >> /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --syslog local5 --file --xmlfile ${xml_file}
> > --sourceid $1
> >>
>
> > And doing cron runs for the British xmltv won't affect the automatic
runs
> > for Schedules Direct?
>
> It is less invasive. If they have different data for the same channel,
> the one run last will win. So either exclude those you want to fill
> through xmltv from SD or make sure it runs after SD is completed.
> As far as I know, but you will know better, SD does not use an xmltvid.
> You will have to set them in Mythtv-Setup for the channels you want to
> fill through xmltv. If SD does use them, you have a problem as they
> probably will not be the same. You then must exclude them from SD.
>

There won't be any duplicates. As stated SD is for my North American
channels and I just want listings for one lone channel from Britain via
HLS. It should be an interesting exercise. I wonder if I have to adjust the
time zone for the UK listing or it might be in UTC.
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