[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase trying to contact schedulesdirect even when "use EIT only" set

[A. F. Cano]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 08:40:35AM -0600, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2013, at 7:16, "A. F. Cano" <afc at shibaya.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've had very spotty program guide data.  Furtheremore, when starting
> > the backend and at random times (more than once every 24 hours, as the
> > docs say) I see network activity.  So I start nethogs and see that it's
> > mythfilldatabase.  Wireshark points out it's trying to contact
> > schedulesdirect and getting "unauthorized" replies.  No surprise, since
> > I haven't contracted with them.  The surprising part is that even with
> > "use EIT only" and "never" use quick tuning, per the directions here:
> > https://tweakingmythtv.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/mythtv-eit-data-not-working/
> > it is still happening.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions? Is this a known bug?  Any workarounds?
> > Did I forget setting something somewhere?  By the way, I thought that
> > this was myth 0.25, but it's been upgraded by the packaging system to
> > 0.26.1+fixes20 from deb-multimedia.  I suppose that accounts for the
> > fact that now the frontend hangs when I attempt to exit.  Instead I have
> > to "kill <PID>", twice.  It succeeds the second time.
> 
> Stop running mythfilldatabase.  It's of no use if you're using EIT data.

Mmm... I haven't done anything specific to run it.  How do I stop the BE
from running it? Shouldn't "EIT only" be sufficient to disable it?  Is
this a bug? (it certainly looks like it).

Augustine