[mythtv-users] anomalies encountered updating to/for Schedules Direct

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

Thanks for your help.

| On 09/18/2007 02:17 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| > 2) It wasn't obvious to me how to delete an individual Video source in
| >    mythtvsetup.  I've since learned that, in the Video sources screen,
| >    if you move the cursor to the source that you wish to delete, you
| >    can type "d" to request to delete it.  Is this documented
| >    somewhere?
| >   
| 
| You shouldn't delete the video source to switch to Schedules Direct. 
| See http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-24.html#ss24.3 .  Doing so was
| your first mistake and caused all the other issues in 3-5...

That turns out not to be the case.  I did not delete the video source.
I added a new one.

| > 3) I left Zap2it as a source and added SchedulesDirect as a new source.  
| >    I then switched all my Input connections to use Schedules Direct 
| >    instead of Zap2it.  This seems reasonable: during the transition 
| >    period, I'd like to be able to go back to Zap2it.
| >
| >    I ran into a problem that I think is related to this.  After
| >    apparently working for a couple of weeks, my guide information
| >    stopped at 8PM last night.  I tried all sorts of variations on
| >    mythfilldatabase to try to fix it.  Even though Zap2it was not used
| >    by any input connection, and Schedules Direct was being used, the
| >    Zap2it failure apparently blocked guide updating (even though the log
| >    seemed to show Schedules Direct processing).  I edited the Zap2it
| >    source to actually use Schedules Direct.  Once that was done, the
| >    guide was correctly populated.

Yesterday I changed the video source named zap2it to actually use
Schedules direct.  That appears to be what fixed the problem reported
in (3).  But I don't see why.