[mythtv-users] MFDB 0.26 failing

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/07/2013 05:08 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael T. Dean"
>>> I'll try refreshing the lineup again, Mike. When I did the install,
>>> about
>>> 2 weeks ago, I had to do the channel refresh about 5 times before I
>>> actually
>>> got a lineup.
>> On the SD website? This has absolutely nothing to do with MythTV or
>> MythTV configuration.
> Nope; never logged into there; I don't even have the credentials; my
> sister set up the account for her box.

You'll have to ask her for the credentials or ask her to click the 
button to re-add the lineup or find the password in the database or 
something, then, because until you fix your SD account...

>
> I'm referring to instructing mfdb to retrieve the lineup and and plug it
> into the db.
>
>>> And, last night, I reran grab-all one more time, and I had 3 new
>>> days of
>>> data; this morning, I rechecked, and whatever ran overnight pulled
>>> what
>>> appears to be a full load.
>>>
>>> I'm going to take someone's advice and update further to .27, if I
>>> can
>>> find packages for it (Packman only builds back as far as 12.3 --
>>> which is
>>> current -- and I'm on 12.2).
>> Again, try the re-add all lineups on the SD website. You shouldn't
>> need to touch your MythTV system or mythtv-setup to fix this.
> Since there have been no lineup changes I'm aware of, I'm not sure
> why program data insertion should fail (recordings would fail, but
> that's a different story), but as I say, mfdb, whether retrieving
> channels or programs, *says* it's inserting data, but that data is
> not there when I go to look for it.

The lineup on SD website is "broken" in that something in TMS's database 
about the account you're using and the lineup it's using and the 
channels it has selected is broken.  You need to delete the lineup from 
the SD website (which deletes the lot from the TMS database), then 
create a new lineup.

This problem is so common (and happens at random times--often when the 
service provider adds/removes/shuffles/changes/... channels around, even 
if those channels aren't part of the SD member's lineup) that SD made a 
single button for users to click that deletes and re-adds the lineup 
exactly as it was before.

Think of it as "rebooting" the lineup.  Until you do this, the problem 
will continue.  The mythfilldatabase program is working exactly as it 
should.  It is downloading what data SD/TMS gives it, and it is putting 
it in your database.  As shown by the command you ran and the log 
message I quoted in a previous reply (here, again, for your viewing 
pleasure):

> couch at duckling:/home/jra>   mythfilldatabase --logpath /var/log/mythtv --dd-grab-all
...

> 2013-10-06 21:10:04.254279 I  Grab complete.  Actual data from 2013-10-06T00:00:00Z to 2013-10-07T00:00:00Z (UTC)

mythfilldatabase is saying, "Give me /all/ the data for /all/ the days 
available in the TMS database for my lineup," and SD/TMS is giving back 
exactly 1 day of data.  That means the problem is with SD/TMS.  Until 
you fix that problem, you'll get exactly the same (working, but limited 
by the data it's receiving) behavior from mythfilldatabase.

Mike