[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct error 4010, separating tv_grab_sdjson... from mythfilldatabase

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 16/07/2025 19:24, Christopher Sean Hilton via mythtv-users wrote:
> I've started to get a hard error message from Schedules Direct: to paraphrase, "Error 4010,
> ...limited to 1 IP per 24h period...". I put in a ticket with Schedules Direct and they say
> that they are having people pirate the data from one account to thousands of Kodi
> boxes. My only reaction to that is to sigh.
>
> Is it possible to have `tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite` save the data into a file and then direct
> `mythfilldatabase` to consume the data from the file without trying to run `tv_grab...`
> directly?
>
> I have this problem because I have two homes and two mythtvs. It would be best if I could
> just run `mythfilldatabase` on each mythtv independently but, that may not be the option
> that I have. I'm working on a support request with Schedules Direct and I hope that this
> block can be relaxed but I'm thinking through all of my options. I don't have a problem with
> creating a script that run's `tv_grab...` in one location and then another script that
> handles mythfilldatabase. I'm guessing that this part is handled by the `mythfilldatabase
> --file` option.

Of course. Here is a snippet of my nightly grabber script:

time nice tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --config-file
tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite.conf --output tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlist.out
time nice /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase --file --sourceid 2 --xmlfile
tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlist.out --only-update-guide --no-resched

# some database cleanup

time nice /usr/bin/mythutil --resched