[mythtv-users] enhancing EIT data manually?

[Martin MAURER]

Hi Mike,

thanks for the reply.

The thing is, I updated the database 2 days ago, as I supposed it might
be overwritten by the EIT collector. But this apparently never happened,
so I guess there is some logic which will not overwrite, when the data
about this channel is already there and unchanged (and it doesn't detect
updates in the subtitle field). So the only thing I am missing is to
force the reschedule.

While your proposed solution would be the clean one I wanted to avoid
the work of getting all this to work.

I know of course, that what I am trying to do here is definitely not the
intended way of doing this, and therefore no bug reports will be written
by me if my experiments crash my mythtv setup :)

Martin

On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 12:07 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 09/03/2012 11:44 AM, Martin MAURER wrote:
> > I am using mythtv 0.25 with EIT channel data. My schedules are set like
> > Record "The Mentalist" at any time on any channel. I have quite a few of
> > those schedules.
> > As we don't have high quality EIT data here the shows are often missing
> > the subtitle information and the description differs between main
> > broadcast and repetition in the night.
> > Therefore mythtv fails to detect that the show is being broadcasted
> > twice. In such cases I would like to manually add (ie copy) the subtitle
> > information to the EIT collected data. I succeeded in adding the
> > information to the database and it is now visible in "Upcoming
> > recordings". Unfortunately the sceduler does not use this information
> > and tries to record the show twice, so that it can't solve the conflicts
> > where this should definitely possible in some cases.
> >
> > Is there a way to force the scheduler to reschedule these shows?
> 
> When EIT data collection is enabled in MythTV, the scheduler re-runs 
> every 5 minutes--and EIT will constantly overwrite any changes you make 
> to the data in the database.  Therefore, what you should be doing is 
> using something other than MythTV EIT data collection.
> 
> Specifically, what I'd suggest is to use the current EIT-to-XMLTV 
> processor (no idea which one is the one you're supposed to use these 
> days) to grab the EIT data, modify the XMLTV data as desired, then use 
> mythfilldatabase to insert that data into your database.  You can create 
> a script using, for example, the Python bindings to determine when is a 
> good time to do the EIT collection, then "check out" a tuner for use in 
> collecting the EIT data, then run mythfilldatabase.  With this approach, 
> you control not only when EIT collection and rescheduling is performed, 
> but also--through editing the content of the XMLTV data file--you can 
> control the information in the listings.
> 
> Mike

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