[mythtv-users] Running mythfilldatabase

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/17/2007 04:49 PM, Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> Cottrell, Eric wrote:
>   
>>> OK, I may be blind, but...
>>> This morning when I checked the schedules, I found that 
>>> mythtv didnt know anything about what was on the air.
>>>
>>> So I ran mythfilldatabase by hand, and we were back in business.
>>>
>>> Now running this automagically USED to be an option somewhere 
>>> in myth-setup. I ran thru all the options there and never 
>>> found it (so never found if it were 
>>> set
>>> on or off...)
>>>
>>> Am I blind? Has it moved? Is it on by default?
>>>       
>> On 0.20.2 I found it in the frontend menus under setup->general.  It is
>> several settings pages in.
>>
>> I would be interested if it works because I upgraded from 0.16 and
>> mythfilldatabase does not automagically run anymore.  Maybe they ran out
>> of magic after 0.18 8).
>>     
> I experienced a similar phenomena with my MythTV box.  The machine has 
> been graciously updated a number of times from 0.8 up to 0.20.2 now. 
> Before the most recent upgrade to 0.20.2 I still ran the grabber through 
> a cron job, like in the bad old days.  I figured that the change to 
> schedules direct was incentive to activate the automatically fetch 
> listings option, however, it never actually fetches the listings, and it 
> leaves not trace in my logs of even trying.
>
> So, I'm back to running it with a cron job.
>
> Sounds like mythfilldatabase not automatically running may be a 
> moderately common issue.

Perhaps you two, too, are suffering from the issue that I described in
Eric's thread (if so--if the below solutioin fixes the issue for any/all
of you), please let me know as I can probably make a case for getting a
"fix" into 0.20-fixes).  I'll re-post my answer here since it hasn't yet
made it into the archives:

It sounds like you may be using the "Run mythfilldatabase at time
suggested by grabber" but the time that was last suggested (i.e. by a
"manual" execution of mythfilldatabase) is not in the window during
which mythfilldatabase is allowed to run. To fix it, change the
"mythfilldatabase Execution Start/End" times to 0 and 24, respectively.

In 0.20.2 (and 0.20-fixes), the window is "moved" to a period of a
couple of hours around the suggested time by the backend when the
backend runs mythfilldatabase. So, if mythfilldatabase is run manually,
no one is updating the window and it may or may not line up with the
last-updated window. In SVN trunk (and, in 0.21, when it's released),
the window isn't changed, rather it's ignored. See
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/commits/263447#263447 .

Mike