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Michael T. Dean wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid4311DF01.7020606@thirdcontact.com" type="cite">Ali
Asad Lotia wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">If you use a cron job, then you can have it
run
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mythfilldatabase --refresh-today --refresh-second multiple times a day
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to get any last minute changes made to zap2it.
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I'm new to this group, so I don't know if the zap2it data service
<br>
frowns upon people downloading scheduling data more than once a day,
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but that would be one way around getting incorrect programs recorded
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if zap2it has updated the schedule.
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It's definitely not ideal. As TMS is providing a free service for us
(and has no obligation to do so), we should do all we can to make
things easy for them (= likely to continue to be free for us).
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When we first started using DataDirect, TMS asked that we include a
means of allowing people to download at different times. Most people
were downloading in the middle of the night, and since it's a North
America only data source, that meant that their servers were getting
hammered overnight.
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The current recommendation is to use the MythTV internal DataDirect
support to download no more than once per day and to choose a "random"
time, for example by using the day of your birthday mod 24 as the hour
for the start time of your download range--i.e. for a birthday on the
16th of some month, use 16:00 (4:00pm) or for a birthday on the 31st,
use 7:00am (31/24 = 1 with a remainder of 7)). Then set the stop time
to be a few hours later. Myth will use a walking pattern to download
sometime within that time range every day.
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See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/72785#72785">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/72785#72785</a>
(read the full thread to get the current recommendation).
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<br>
Mike
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<font face="Arial">Sounds to me that they need to also have a separate
feed for programming changes. This should be a much smaller feed and
wouldn't be bad if it were requested hourly. Sort of like an RSS
feed. Those things get "hammered" but they are light.</font><br>
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