[mythtv-users] Schedules Direct DataDirect replacement service testing

Jay Foster jayf0ster at roadrunner.com
Fri Oct 10 17:32:22 UTC 2014


On 10/10/2014 9:21 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
> On 10/9/2014 5:49 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>> On 10/09/2014 07:05 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>> ...
>> > OK.  I put the mfdb output here (http://pastebin.com/7rUiRbzd).  I 
>> noticed that I did not get the "Failed to fetch some program info" 
>> message
>>> at the end, so that may be unrelated. I'm running 0.21-fixes.
>>>
>>> I am suspicious that my issue is similar to the one Leo Butler 
>>> reports (in this same thread) with two lineups.  The channels I am 
>>> missing are
>>> from one of my two lineups.  I have two lineups configured on the SD 
>>> web site, and the current service sends listings for both and mfdb 
>>> fills in
>>> the database just fine.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Oops, I'm not going to be of much help here, I'm running 0.28-pre.
>>
>> I looked at fixes/0.21  and it appears to have the -dd-grab-all
>> flag. You might just try it and see if you get your 2nd source.
>> The only reasons I know of for not using it (learned from reading
>> this list) is if you have an underpowered host or some huge
>> number of channels.
>>
>> In 0.28-pre, mythfilldatabase --help refresh-all reports, in part:
>>
>>     If being used with datadirect, this option should not be used,
>>     rather use --dd-grab-all to pull all listings each time.
>>
>> For the record, I have 2 sources and am getting data for both.
>>
>> At the risk of asking a dumb question, how are you detecting the
>> missing channels?
>>
>> For those playing along and comfortable taking a peek with mysql,
>> here's the query I used to verify that I'm getting data:
>>
>>     SELECT chanid,starttime,title FROM program WHERE chanid = 2602 
>> ORDER BY starttime DESC LIMIT 20;
>>
>> Of course I changed chanid to look different channels in both sources.
>>
> mythfilldatabase --dd-grab-all reports, "illegal option: 
> '--dd-grab-all' (use --help)"
>
> I know that something is not working, because selecting listings from 
> mythweb shows NO DATA for half of my channels when using the new 
> replacement service, and shows listings for all of them when using the 
> existing service. So there is something different about it.
>
> I will try to capture a TCP dump later today to see if the missing 
> listings data is being sent by the SD service or not.
> Jay
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I captured the TCP dump from running mythfilldatabase with the new 
service and compared it with a previous one using the existing working 
service.  I can confirm that the listings data for the missing channels 
is NOT in the data sent by SD.  So there is something different with the 
new service causing it to not send all of the data.  The new service is 
only including data for one lineup, not both as the existing service does.

Another oddity is the output of mfdb:
The existing (working) output contains:
2014-10-09 16:49:02.062 Found 45 channels for source 1 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:50:33.163 Found 45 channels for source 2 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:51:01.601 Found 42 channels for source 3 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:51:29.792 Found 15 channels for source 4 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:51:54.185 Found 16 channels for source 5 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:52:18.952 Found 17 channels for source 6 which use grabber

The new (non working) output contains:
2014-10-09 16:43:04.863 Found 45 channels for source 1 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:43:55.127 Found 44 channels for source 2 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:44:16.201 Found 41 channels for source 3 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:44:36.977 Found 14 channels for source 4 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:44:54.990 Found 15 channels for source 5 which use grabber
2014-10-09 16:45:13.320 Found 16 channels for source 6 which use grabber

Except for source 1, the new service is off by one on the number of 
channels it found.
Jay


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