[mythtv-users] Zap2it Labs: Temporary scale-back to 3 days of listings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/13/2006 05:29 PM, Brandon Beattie wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:23:57AM -0500, Tom Lichti wrote:
>   
>> Zap2It-Labs wrote:
>>     
>>> I guess I'm used to some people downloading hundreds (or
>>> even thousands) or times per day, totally pointlessly, from DataDirect,
>>> thinking they're getting updated data (I guess).
>> Sounds like you could gain a lot by limiting people to one download per 
>> day, or maybe a max of 3. Just refuse the download on the 4th (or more try).
> Another possible way to fix this is don't let someone download twice in
> under 26 hours.  This way it forces everyone to change download times or
> only lets people download every 2 days at the same time.  I'd even go
> for 78 hours or something.  Myth could easily track this and could
> reschedule when it knows it can download data again.
>   

However, mfdb downloads 1 day at a time, 2 times per video source 
(tomorrow and 13 days from now).  So, the logic becomes far more complex 
for TMS...

Mike