[mythtv-users] Atlas Grabber/Mythfilldatabase Not Refreshing Data - Data is already present is output instead of refreshing?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi nospam312,

Friday, August 29, 2014, 4:15:17 PM, you wrote:

> Thanks this solved the problem for me.
> mythfilldatabase --refresh all


> After running this command on average 400-500 programmes a day for 14 days were updated.

> This makes it easier to schedule new programmes as they are in the
> programme listing well in advance.


> For me X Factor on Saturday was not going to record as it thought
> it was a duplicate.  I prefer catching these earlier rather than a day before the showing.


> Take Jamie's Comfort Food (also Only Connect) on Monday this was
> not listed at all so I couldn't easily set it to record until Sunday without the above fix.


> I am also not sure if in MythTV if as soon as you tell a programme
> Never To Record with the current meta data are used or whether these
> get automatically updated.  I have been telling it to not to record
> programmes and then the guide data updates with subtitles/episode
> information and then they are recorded causing conflicts with other programmes.


> Hoping things should run much smoother using --refresh all. 
> Without the refresh all you only have up to date date for today and tomorrow.




> On 29 August 2014 14:46, Mike Perkins
> <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>  
> On 29/08/14 13:07, nospam312 wrote:
>  
>  Does anyone know how to force mythfilldatabase to refresh the data instead
>  of displaying messages like "Data is already present for "?
>  
>  The data for the following day is automatically refreshed but that is no
>  good if I want to set it to record days beforehand.
>  
>  Noticed mainly during prime time there are parts of data missing e.g. for
>  me Jamie's Comfort Food (Monday 08:00pm), X Factor on Saturday was missing
>  until today's update and various other channels/timeslots are missing and
>  are not updated until the day before.
>  
>  "Data is already present for" is not checking correctly.  There may be some
>  data present but there are important 30 minutes, 60 minutes slots that do
>  not have data?
>  
>  Using MythTV 0.26fixes.  Thanks.
>  
>  


>  I'm not sure why you consider this a problem. mythfilldatabase
> will always do a reschedule after an update and it will be using the latest data at that point.
>  
>  The fact that "X Factor on Saturday was missing until today's
> update" doesn't matter so long as the program is there and scheduled before it actually starts.
>  
>  I often find, with the UK xmltv feed, that generic details pop up
> for programs a week or so ahead. It doesn't bother me because I know
> I'll have accurate data before the potential recording point comes
> and the scheduler will have made the right decision.
>   
>  If you have programs being truncated, then the data provided is bad, not absent.
>  
>  -- 
>  
>  Mike Perkins

>  
>  _______________________________________________

You can set the number of days to grap. Run: mythfilldatabase --help

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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