[mythtv-users] Manually entering tv schedule info

[Johan]

On 01/08/2011 07:44 AM, George Nassas wrote:
> On 2011-01-07, at 3:21 PM, Adam Wood wrote:
>
>> I am interested in having mythtv record some time slots on a local 
>> channel for shows in the coming months (they do not submit their 
>> schedules to the schedule gods or however that process works). Can I 
>> safely add them to the database (beyond the 2 weeks of data SD gives 
>> me) or will mythfilldatabase erase them when it populates the db?
>
> I'm guessing you have a non-myth way to get good schedule data for 
> this one channel and want it to work naturally with mythtv. If so it 
> looks like it's not safe to mix your schedule data with that pulled in 
> my mythfilldatabase. That's assuming your data is coming from 
> Schedules Direct which, for most people in North America, is the case.
>
> You can look for yourself at 
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/programs/mythfilldatabase/filldata.cpp, 
> search for the line containing ProgramData::ClearDataBySource. Inside 
> that function (which is located elsewhere in the tree in 
> libs/libmythtv/programdata.cpp) it iterates all the source's channels 
> and removes data regardless if SD has anything to say about a given 
> channel.
>
> One way around this would be to write your data to a similarly 
> structured parallel table and then copy that into the main schedule 
> table after each fill database run and then force a backend reschedule 
> so your update is reflected immediately.
>
> - George
>
If you use Manual recording (vcr like recording) mythtv will record 
independent from the schedule (and mythfilldatabase), and can do this 
forever. Using mythweb you can set it for weekly, 5/7 or 7/7. Arclight 
did not allow me the weekly option.

Johan