[mythtv-users] Responsiveness of zap2it to lineup discrepancies?
Chris O'Hara
dev at sanitarium.org
Thu Jul 6 19:09:03 UTC 2006
its not the end of the world :P resetting your video sources takes 3
minutes max (including mythfilldatabase time)
(again, thanks Mike :))
-Chris
f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:34:30 -0400
> From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>
> > On 07/06/2006 12:50 PM, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>
> > >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.
>
> Okay, I'll try that: start mythtv-setup, say "NO!" to bashing my card
> settings, say "yes" to bashing my video sources, and then set up all
> the video sources again. This is a pretty big pain just because the
> provider changed its channel numbers around. Should myth "just
> recover" from this if I instead wait a day? Perhaps recovering only
> for "next day" and "last day" as time marches on? If so, maybe I'll
> wait a day instead.
>
> >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.
>
> Right, but if things don't get reset when listings change without
> running this, it seems like running it preemptively might make
> sense---assuming it isn't doing a ton of work or reinitializing
> things that shouldn't be reinitialized. I'm not sure -what- it's
> doing, frankly.
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