[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase only collects the next days sched. ?

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri May 16 18:54:07 EDT 2003


On Friday 16 May 2003 05:41 pm, Darrell wrote:
> I've been running mythtv for a few weeks now.  When I first installed
> and set up the database, mythfilldatabase grabbed 7 days, I believe.
> Since then, (I run it daily via cron) it only pulls the next days
> schedual.  But tv_grab_na is set to grab 7 days, by default and if I run
> tv_grab_na --config ~/.mythtv/ATI.xmltv, it pulls 7 days data.
> So if I want to pre-sched 2 or more days in advance, no tv listing is
> available.
>
> I run mythfilldatabase manually and it only (repeatedly) pulls the next
> days guide.
>
> Have I set something up incorrectly ?

Whenever you run mythfilldatabase, it'll regrab tomorrow, and then whatever 
dates are missing in in the database for the next 9 days.  It's extremely 
wasteful to download an entire weeks worth of data every single day.

Isaac


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