[mythtv-users] another scheduling strangeness/question

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:34 -0500, David Engel wrote:
> There shouldn't be a problem then unless you've got really bad timing.

Well, I suppose that could be the case.

> What Schedules Direct lineups are you using and which postal code did
> you originally enter to select them?  I went to tvlistings.com (a web
> frontend for the same TMS data that SD uses) and tried a random postal
> code for Kingston, but couldn't find the lineups that look exactly
> like yours. 

So, when I look at the digital and analog listings for my location,
tvlistings.com does indeed show the same description for both channels.

So perhaps this is an issue that they didn't match nearly two weeks ago
when that data was initially pulled from SD but was brought into
alignment with each other at some time between when myth fetched it for
me and now.  IIUC, Myth wouldn't have "refetched" that data between the
first time it gets it and the day before it's supposed to be used,
correct?  If so that might explain it.

But that would mean that nearly 14 days ago when this data was initially
fetched, it was (perhaps only for a short period of time) not in sync
between the digital and analog channels.  Not having that data corrected
for nearly two weeks does yield this kinds of myth scheduling mistakes
and they are mistakes that can cost a recording if interim scheduling
moves a show around and it's not discovered until the day before it was
supposed to be recorded.

Perhaps if these scheduling "sync" problems are only a problem for the
showings that are near the end of the ~14 day window, each day, not only
should the listings for "tomorrow" be refreshed but the listings for the
final 2-3 days should be refreshed to catch up with some of these short
term mis-syncs?

b.

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