[mythtv] Dropping Directv -- tell scheduler date that source is no longer valid?

[John P Poet]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 10:59 PM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 05:04:25PM -0700, John P Poet wrote:
> > Hey David,
> >
> > I am dropping Directv effective December 7th. As it happens, Directv is
> > having one of their "free" weekends for Thanksgiving, so lots of shows
> are
> > being scheduled and lots more are being delayed ("Later").
> >
> > Is there a relatively easy way for me to let the scheduler know that that
> > source is going away after December 7th so it knows it cannot schedule
> > conflicting shows after that date?
> >
> > I don't mind making temporary code changes to make this happen. I am just
> > hoping for a simple solution.
>
> Like Stephen suggested, I would start by deleting any program entries
> for December 7 or later.  After doing that once, I'd try to prevent
> those days from getting populated at all any more.  You can use the
> --refresh option with mythfilldatabase to do that.  For example, I
> think you would use --refresh 1-11 for tomorrow (Monday, November 25),
> --refresh 1-10 for Tuesday and then keep decreasing the last day by
> one for each new day until you get to just --refresh 1-1.  You can
> change that leading 1 to 0 or use --refresh today if you want to also
> refresh the current day.
>

Thank you, everyone.  That solution works fine.

John
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