[mythtv-users] Limiting mythfilldatabase

[Kyle Kelly]

Gary Raposo wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been searching for an answer to this one for some time now with 
> no luck.  I've caved so here's my post...
>
> Running MythTV 0.15.1 with XMLTV 0.5.34 on RedHat 9 and everything 
> works great.  I'm a very happy user... except... mythfilldatabase is a 
> little aggressive with its downloading via Zap2it's DataDirect.
>
> It seems that mythfilldatabase wants to grab 12 or 13 days worth of 
> data.  This wouldn't be a problem but for the fact that after about 
> the 8th or 9th day the schedule starts filling up with "NO DATA".  
> Zap2it doesn't have any data that far in advance yet they allow 
> DataDirect clients to connect and download "NO DATA".  Go figure! :)
>
> After a few weeks of this my entire program table is full of "NO DATA" 
> and I have to wait until the day before a scheduled recording before 
> mythfilldatabase pulls in the next day's program information.  In 
> other words, the scheduled recordings listing for anything more than 
> today and tomorrow is useless.
>
> I know that tv_grab_na_dd will accept a --days option.  I was hoping 
> that mythfilldatabase would accept --graboptions "--days 7" but that 
> doesn't seem to work.  I simply want to limit my daily 
> mythfilldatabase cron job to grabbing a maximum of 7 days of data.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Gary Raposo                                              gary at raposo.ca
> Eschew obfuscation...                              http://www.raposo.ca
>
I've had similar problems, these should help:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/70645

and

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/81327