[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not running automatically?

[James Abernathy]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 9:13 AM stinga <stinga+mythtv at wolf-rock.com> wrote:

> On 12/01/2022 20:16, James Abernathy 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??
> >
> I could not get it to work either, gave up and just ran it from cron.
>
> as mythtv user
> 00 03 * * * /home/mythtv/run_mythfilldatabase.sh
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> logger -i "exiting run_mythfilldatabase.sh"
>
> cd $HOME
>
> exec >> ~/run_mythfilldatabase.log
> exec 2>&1
>
> #UK stuff
> #/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --sourceid 3 --file --xmlfile /backup/sd.xml
> #/usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --sourceid 5 --file --xmlfile /backup/sd.xml
>
> /usr/bin/tv_grab_zz_sdjson --output SD.xml
> /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --sourceid 8 --file --xmlfile SD.xml
>
> --
> 'ooroo
>
> Stinga...(:)-)
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> I was going to set up a systemd timer to run it as mythtv, but I was just
wondering how the Ubuntu packaging set it up so it always works.  It's not
a big deal as this is a test system, but I'm learning that the packaging in
the Ubuntu version of mythtv fixes a lot of stuff.

Jim A
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