[mythtv-users] xmltv + DVB-EPG to re-schedule moved shows like VPS?

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 22 10:22:34 UTC 2017


On 22 November 2017 6:40:21 pm Philipp Hahn <pmhahn+mythtv at pmhahn.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm living in Germany and us "tv_grab_eu_epgdata" to get schedule data.
> The grabber rungs around 08:00 in the morning. If some important events
> occur on the current day "breaking news" are inserted, which move shows
> to later time. I already start 5 minutes early and run 5 minutes late,
> but sometimes that is not enough.
> In the good old times with analogue VCRs there was VPS (Video
> Programming System), which allowed to recorder to re-schedule itself.
> Can MythTV do something similar with the DVB-EPG data (or whatever)?
>
> Philipp
> _________________________________________

My approach has been to just schedule a 4 hourly cron job to call 
mythfilldatabase.




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