[mythtv-users] Myth Program Guide -- NO DATA

[Stephen Mathezer]

HN Plato wrote:

> Strangest thing, I've been using the Direct Data service for the last 
> few months and everything's been great. However starting tomorrow I 
> get a large block of 'NO DATA' from 5:00pm to 11:00pm on all the local 
> channels. mythfilldatabase doesn't error out, and viewing the chanels 
> from zap2it's listing page shows data during these times. I'm using 
> Shaw Cable located in Canada. Any ideas? I was going to drop all the 
> program data and repull it down to see if something got corrupted in 
> the database.

This happens to me fairly regularly. I am also on Shaw. Usually it is 
data for Saturday or Sunday that doesn't get pulled down at all, or is 
missing large chunks of programming.  Doing a "delete from program" in 
mysql, followed by a mythfilldatabase always fixes it. That is a bit of 
a sledgehammer approach though.

I never see any errors from mythfilldatabase and even waiting for many 
more days to pass, the holes don't get filled in. I was starting to 
think that this was a timing thing. My mythfilldatabase runs out of 
cron.daily at 6:25 am MDT.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'm interested.

-Steve