[mythtv-users] Alternatives to DataDirect?

[Brian Steele]

On 2/13/06, Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:
>
> > So when is the best time to be running the cron job for retrieving
> listings?
>
> Don't use a cronjob, use the built in ability for the backend to run
> mythfilldatabase itself. It will honour the suggested downlaod time from
> zap2it and allow them to spread their load.
>
>
Speaking of the new feature in 0.19 that honors the suggested download time,
how does that work for those of us who use the automatic shutdown/restart
feature?  If the suggested download time is a time when the machine is
turned off, the result would be no listings.  Should we run mythfilldatabase
once a day from the shutdown script?
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