[mythtv-users] Success story and my own Tivo comparison (long and windy )

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 10 October 2003 04:07 am, James L. Paul wrote:
> 
> btw, is there a handy place to change the default number of days (7)
> that the tv_grab_xx scripts use? I could do a crude hack to pass "--days
> 14" but would rather just add the value to a config file. This shouldn't
> cause any more net traffic other than the initial fill, and I'm used to
> having more than 7 days in the guide. (I hate seeing a show advertised
> 10 days in advance and having to wait a few days before I can set it to
> record. ;)

Well, it kind of depends on how far into the future your listings source; for 
instance, Zap2It looks like it only goes about 12 days into the future.

That being said, I believe the number of days is hard-coded into 
mythfilldatabase.  Probably shouldn't be too hard to change it and 
recompile...

-JAC