[mythtv-users] Original Air Date missing in Schedules Direct

Robert Kulagowski rkulagow at gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 16:11:55 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Joseph Fry <joe at thefrys.com> wrote:
> Also I have often wondered why mythfilldatabase needs to do so much work to
> update a schedule when there are few changes.  I was curious if SD maintains
> a "last updated date/time" field within the data it stores.  It would be
> cool if mythfilldatabase could request only updates since the last run eg
> "mythfilldatabase --updates-since <date-time-of-last-run>.  I'm not sure if
> this would increase or decrease the load on the SD servers (though it would
> certainly save bandwidth).

That's all in the new JSON format - use of modified dates and md5's
makes it possible to cache things that haven't changed and only get
new things. I'm still writing the grabber, so nothing ready quite yet.


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