[mythtv-users] Any way to automatically retrieve lineups?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/04/2010 03:51 AM, Phill Edwards 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.
>    

Ah, yes.  If you haven't told MythTV to run mythfilldatabase, but 
instead only run it using the distro-provided script that starts 
mythtv-setup and then runs mythfilldatabase on exit, it would seem to 
work as the OP described.

I would still recommend doing the video sources portion of the post I 
linked after you configure MythTV to run mythfilldatabase automatically 
for you just to clean up what may be a mess from the approach you had 
been using.

I think, though, that mythfilldatabase configuration may now be in 
mythtv-setup (General settings) instead of mythfrontend.

Mike