[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not running automatically

[Mary Strimel]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:03 AM Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 12:25 AM Mary Strimel <mary.strimel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > However, mythtv info center reports the following:
> > "mythfilldatabase ran, but did not insert any new data into the database
> for 2 of 2 sources. This can indicate a potential grabber failure."
> > It indicates there is 17 days of guide data. What does this mean?
>
> As others have said, it depends.  Your grabber (or upstream
> source that the grabber uses) may only update the guide
> data once a day (or so), so if you run the grabber more than
> once a day it may end up making no changes, and MythTV
> reports that as a possible issue so you have the opportunity
> to investigate further.  It should be noted that MythTV is
> rather limited in its idea(s) of updates, as it only considers
> dates (and not details of potential schedule/program updates),
> so it can be further misleading some of the time, and only
> the last run of mythfilldatabase counts (so if you run it
> 2 times, and the first time it got new data, but not the
> next time, it will report the potential issue).
>
Thank you for this, Gary. I think this must be what is happening -- this
morning I still have the error message, but the date range for the listings
has bumped forward by a day. So it must have run at least once correctly.
Thank you, everyone, for your help! I'm glad to have it working, and I
think crontab was probably the solution for me. I'm not totally sure, but
no matter, it's working!

>
> If you want a bit more detail, and are running a recent
> version of MythTV, start the backend with the options
> `-verbose general,xmltv` which should will be propagated
> to mythfilldatabase and (potentially) show some additional
> information in the logs.
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