[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not running automatically

[Mike Perkins]

On 26/02/2022 13:19, Mary Strimel wrote:
> 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.
> 
If it is working and you still have the error message, to my mind this suggests that the program is 
being run twice daily.

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Mike Perkins