[mythtv-users] Responsiveness of zap2it to lineup discrepancies?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/06/2006 12:50 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:

>Oh wait a minute, apparently I'm blind---my version of
>mythfilldatabase -does- have a --do_channel_updates flag.
>[Why isn't this --do-channel-updates instead for consistency?
>Never mind.]
>  
>

Actually, it's "--do-channel-updates" in SVN for consistency, now, 
because of a patch I sent in...  http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/1731  
(Of course, I didn't realize that was the option I had changed when I 
told you to use it, though.  Your mention of consistency triggered my 
memory.)

>Should I just run it by hand with this flag, followed optionally
>by running it again with --refresh-today if today's listings aren't
>fixed?  Should I take care to run it as the mythtv user and not as
>me or root, or does this not matter?
>  
>

Best bet is to delete all the channels from the lineup and then run it.  
That will clean out a bunch of old garbage.  As a matter of fact, you 
may even want to just use mythtv-setup to "Delete All" your video 
sources (which will delete channels) and clean everything up.

>Is there some reason this should be a default argument to my calls to
>mythfilldatabase every day, assuming that I'm not hand-editing my
>channels?  (I'm not, and have no wish to start.)  If so, I'll add
>that along with --no-delete, which I've been meaning to do for ages;
>I presume this is some page in the mythtv-setup UI somewhere that I
>need to go hunt down again.
>

No.  It's only useful for listings changes.

Mike