[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not running automatically?

[James Abernathy]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 8:45 AM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:16:14 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 9:49 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On my test mythtv- BE/FE combo on Archlinux with Master pre32 3305 I
> >> noticed that over the last several days the Schedules Direct EPG has not
> >> updated.  I can sudo su mythtv and run it and the guide is updated but
> it
> >> doesn't seem to be running automatically. I have mythtv-setup set the
> way I
> >> would normally for Ubuntu so It should be updating between 0 and 5am,
> but
> >> isn't. I just rebooted to see if that would help overnight.
> >>
> >
> >I'm still having this issue with mythfilldatabase not running
> >automatically, even if I reboot the PC. I have the backend settings to run
> >mythfilldatabase  at the SchedulesDirect recommended times, but I have
> >tired picking a range of times.  I know this is Arch, but I don't thing
> >there is a service for this and it's part of the mythtv-backend.service??
> >
> >Jim A
>
> So what do all your mythfilldatabase settings look like?  These are
> from my mother's MythTV box, which runs mythfilldatabase automatically
> from mythbackend at 16:00 each day:
>
> MariaDB [mythconverg]> select * from settings where value like
> 'mythfill%';
> +---------------------------------+---------------------------+----------+
> | value                           | data                      | hostname |
> +---------------------------------+---------------------------+----------+
> | MythFillDatabaseArgs            | --only-update-guide       | NULL     |
> | mythfilldatabaseLastRunEnd      | 2022-01-12T03:00:51Z      | NULL     |
> | mythfilldatabaseLastRunStart    | 2022-01-12T03:00:51Z      | NULL     |
> | mythfilldatabaseLastRunStatus   | Successful.               | NULL     |
> | MythFillDatabaseLog             | /var/log/mythtv           | NULL     |
> | MythFillDatabasePath            | /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase | NULL     |
> | MythFillEnabled                 | 1                         | NULL     |
> | MythFillFixProgramIDsHasRunOnce | 1                         | crw-pvr  |
> | MythFillFixProgramIDsHasRunOnce | 1                         | crw-pvr  |
> | MythFillGrabberSuggestsTime     | 0                         | NULL     |
> | MythFillMaxHour                 | 16                        | NULL     |
> | MythFillMinHour                 | 16                        | NULL     |
> | MythFillPeriod                  | 1                         | NULL     |
> | MythFillSuggestedRunTime        | 2022-01-13T03:00:51Z      | NULL     |
> +---------------------------------+---------------------------+----------+
> 14 rows in set (0.000 sec)
>
> And these are from my MythTV box where mythfilldatabase is run
> externally from a user cron job at 15:10 each day:
>
> MariaDB [mythconverg]> select * from settings where value like
> 'mythfill%';
> +---------------------------------+---------------------------+----------+
> | value                           | data                      | hostname |
> +---------------------------------+---------------------------+----------+
> | MythFillDatabaseArgs            | --only-update-guide       | NULL     |
> | mythfilldatabaseLastRunEnd      | 2022-01-12T02:11:32Z      | NULL     |
> | mythfilldatabaseLastRunStart    | 2022-01-12T02:11:30Z      | NULL     |
> | mythfilldatabaseLastRunStatus   | Successful.               | NULL     |
> | MythFillDatabaseLog             | /var/log/mythtv           | NULL     |
> | MythFillDatabasePath            | /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase | NULL     |
> | MythFillEnabled                 | 0                         | NULL     |
> | MythFillFixProgramIDsHasRunOnce | 1                         | mypvr    |
> | MythFillGrabberSuggestsTime     | 1                         | NULL     |
> | MythFillMaxHour                 | 23                        | NULL     |
> | MythFillMinHour                 |                           | NULL     |
> | MythFillPeriod                  | 1                         | NULL     |
> | MythFillSuggestedRunTime        | 2022-01-13T02:11:30Z      | NULL     |
> +---------------------------------+---------------------------+----------+
> 13 rows in set (0.002 sec)
>

Here are my settings:
select * from settings where value like
   -> 'mythfill%';
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------+----------+
| value                         | data

                          | hostname |
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------+----------+
| mythfilldatabaseLastRunEnd    | 2022-01-10T21:03:37Z

                          | NULL     |
| mythfilldatabaseLastRunStart  | 2022-01-10T21:02:42Z

                          | NULL     |
| mythfilldatabaseLastRunStatus | mythfilldatabase ran, but did not insert
any new data into the Guide for 1 of 1 sources. This can indicate a
potential grabber failure. | NULL     |
| MythFillDatabasePath          | mythfilldatabase

                          | NULL     |
| MythFillEnabled               | 1

                          | NULL     |
| MythFillGrabberSuggestsTime   | 0

                          | NULL     |
| MythFillMaxHour               | 5

                          | NULL     |
| MythFillMinHour               | 0

                          | NULL     |
| MythFillSuggestedRunTime      | 2022-01-11T21:02:42Z

                          | NULL     |
+-------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------+----------+
9 rows in set (0.001 sec)
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