Michael T. Dean wrote:
Ali
Asad Lotia wrote:
If you use a cron job, then you can have it
run
mythfilldatabase --refresh-today --refresh-second multiple times a day
to get any last minute changes made to zap2it.
I'm new to this group, so I don't know if the zap2it data service
frowns upon people downloading scheduling data more than once a day,
but that would be one way around getting incorrect programs recorded
if zap2it has updated the schedule.
It's definitely not ideal. As TMS is providing a free service for us
(and has no obligation to do so), we should do all we can to make
things easy for them (= likely to continue to be free for us).
When we first started using DataDirect, TMS asked that we include a
means of allowing people to download at different times. Most people
were downloading in the middle of the night, and since it's a North
America only data source, that meant that their servers were getting
hammered overnight.
The current recommendation is to use the MythTV internal DataDirect
support to download no more than once per day and to choose a "random"
time, for example by using the day of your birthday mod 24 as the hour
for the start time of your download range--i.e. for a birthday on the
16th of some month, use 16:00 (4:00pm) or for a birthday on the 31st,
use 7:00am (31/24 = 1 with a remainder of 7)). Then set the stop time
to be a few hours later. Myth will use a walking pattern to download
sometime within that time range every day.
See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/72785#72785
(read the full thread to get the current recommendation).
Mike
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Sounds to me that they need to also have a separate
feed for programming changes. This should be a much smaller feed and
wouldn't be bad if it were requested hourly. Sort of like an RSS
feed. Those things get "hammered" but they are light.
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