[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 86, Issue 10

[Peter Abplanalp]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:43 AM,  <gustietodd at thefoolery.com> wrote:
>>> I use MythTV with schedules direct, but it only downloads a couple of
>>> weeks
>>> of schedules, then is unknown after that until I run setup and retrieve
>>> lineups again.  Is there a way to set it up to do this automatically?
>>
>> Depends on how you're running mythfilldatabase. I think there's a way
>> of scheduling it from within MythTV in Utilities/Setup --> Setup -->
>> General (last screen).
>>
>> However, in Australia we don't have Schedules Direct and we have
>> different programme guide grabbers. I run this as a daily cron job so
>> that I've always got 2 weeks of forward EPG data.
>
> Hmmm, interesting.  I don't know how to set up a cron job (I'm a Linux
> newb) so I may be hassling you again here soon.
>
> I'll take a look at the setup utilities again when I get home, but I don't
> remember seeing it there when I looked before.  How do others do this
> (particularly with schedules direct)?

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.4

pay particular attention to the last paragraph of that section.

-peter