[mythtv-users] quick hack to more days is epg?, was: Success story and my own Tivo comparison

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 10 October 2003 05:36 pm, and wrote:
> Is there a way to get more than the 7 days short of a complete 
> recompile... a 'dirty' hack?
> rgds
> anders

I don't think so... take a look at the source.  Your other option would be to 
write a script that fetched X days of listing to a file, then ran 
'mythfilldatabase --file' to import it.  However, unless your script checked 
the database for the presence of listings for a particular day, you'd end up 
hitting Zap2It (or whomever) for X days every day, even if you already had 
the listings.  With mythfilldatabase, as long as you run it every day you 
only grab at most 2-3 days of data (less bandwidth to you, and more polite to 
the listings provider, who after all isn't in business to serve MythTV 
users).  I'd say tweaking the mythfilldatabase source is the best way to go.

-JAC