[mythtv-users] DirectData not getting data quite right

[Kyle Kelly]

Gavin Hurlbut wrote:

>I have been using the DirectData method for retrieving schedule information now
>for a couple weeks and I've noticed that future scheduling information is
>missing.
>
>When I looked into it, I noticed that the DirectData use in mythfilldatabase
>still only forces an update of today and tomorrow, then gets 12/13 days from
>today.  Due to the fact that zap2it has no data past a week out other than for
>a few channels (at least for me), this is suboptimal.  I'd like to tell it to
>always retrieve the full schedule information, and not skip anything.
>
>When I looked in the code on CVS, there is a --dd-grab-all argument, but it is
>disabled with an #if 0.  Is there another way to get this to work?  I'm not
>willing to compile unless I need to, I have enough other things to maintain.
>If it is scheduled from within mythbackend, I assume that it still is just
>running the same mythfilldatabase program?
>
>Having little data past tomorrow sucks for me, it's hard to schedule things
>that way.
>
>Thanks.
>Gavin
>  
>
It's an annoying problem, but it's being worked on, as was discussed in 
this recent thread.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/70645

Hope that helps.