[mythtv-users] Manual, or less frequent, EIT crawl?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Jun 17 14:26:34 UTC 2010


On 06/17/2010 01:17 AM, Tyler T wrote:
> I'm setting up 0.23 with a HDHomeRun for ATSC OTA. I want to use EIT
> for program listings (as I have been on my old 0.21 install), but the
> constant EIT crawl is annoying for several* reasons. I'd like to
> either:
>
> 1. disable the EIT crawl, but use cron to run an hourly EIT scan
> or,
> 2. make the EIT crawler sleep for 60 minutes after each scan
>
> Any ideas on how to accomplish one of these?
>
> Thanks,
> ___
>   /yler
>
> * increases power consumption**, makes the activity lights on my
> network switch useless, makes the 'tuned' light on the HDHR useless.
>
> ** this is a low-power system using a SheevaPlug w/ laptop HD for the
> MBE with an eye to eventually going solar/wind power
>    

Isn't there some program that reads EIT data and creates an XMLTV file?

Mike


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