I've seen this too, really annoying... What about calling mythfilldatabase and then erase the week after the update from the database? Keeping only 1 week of good data? Would that work?
Steve On 8/15/05, Mark J. Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On August 14, 2005 02:05 am, Anatoly Ivasyuk wrote: > > I have MythTV 0.18.1 from atrpms installed on FC3 according to Jarod's > > guide, and I'm using Zap2It DataDirect for guide data. Normally it gets > > about 13 or 14 days of complete data, but starting a couple weeks ago > > I've noticed that data on weekdays between 9:30PM and 12:00AM is showing > > NO DATA except for shows that began before 9:30PM. > > > > Fortunately it updates the current recording day and one day ahead when > > mythfilldatabase runs overnight, so the data fills in and the recording > > schedule updates, but this problem does mean that I can't see part of > > the evening schedule for much of the current and next week so I can't > > schedule ahead. Is anyone else having this problem, and is there any > > way to fix it? > > > > Thanks, > > -Anatoly > > > > I've had this problem on and off for at least eight months. The problem is in > the way mythtv decides whether the data is incomplete. > > On a normal update, mythtv will grab data for today, tomorrow, and any days > for which it does not have data, and any day which it deems to have > incomplete data. > > There have been several attempts at improving the way that myth tries to look > for incomplete data in the last eight months, but none have them have worked > perfectly for me. > > If I were to build my own myth instead of using prepared packages, here are > two things that I would do to work around this problem without causing too > much extra load on the zap2it servers. > > (1) Fetch one less day of data. It seems to me that when there is empty data, > it exists after midnight GMT. It seems that myth is trying to fetch to the > very limits of the data that zap2it provides. If we backed off by a day, this > problem may not happen. > > (2) On update, fetch data for today, tomorrow, ONE WEEK FROM NOW, and any > empty or incomplete days. This would only add a little bit of extra load to > the zap2it servers. Perhaps the powers that be would call it too much for > official packages, but thats what I would do. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
