[mythtv] Format of new post-0.25 config.xml

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jun 2 21:26:21 UTC 2012


On 06/02/2012 05:14 PM, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
> On 06/02/2012 04:29 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>> Your shutdown script does some special stuff with mythfilldatabase, 
>> and I don't understand the reasoning. It appears you're blocking 
>> mythbackend from running it automatically, and have cron running the 
>> old +1/+14 update daily, and full update on Saturday. First, you 
>> should never be running '--refresh all' with Schedules Direct, use 
>> --dd-grab-all instead. However, why do you not want it run in this 
>> manner daily?
>>
> I have found that some of the programs that are over a week away, do 
> not have episode information from Schedules Direct. The result was 
> that it was showing conflicts in recordings because it decided to 
> record the same episode at the same time on several channels that were 
> showing it. Without a refresh all, it continues to have those 
> conflicts until the day before the scheduled recording.  I do a 
> refresh all on Saturdays so that those programs which did not have 
> episode information now get it, also if there have been schedule 
> changes they can be applied.

Yeah, you should be using --dd-grab-all, instead (since --refresh-all is 
always wrong with Schedules Direct)--and, doing it every day will ensure 
you always have up-to-date listings data for all days.  See my other post.

Mike


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