[mythtvnz] Programs disappearing from my program table...

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Brendan Dacre <bjdacre at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 March 2012 18:04, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Brendan Dacre <bjdacre at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have just started running solorvox's mheg2xmltv script to dump mheg
>> > data
>> > from my terrestrial card into my database.  This works well until
>> > mythbackend for some reason deletes the program data for prime, c4 and
>> > some
>> > of the data for tv3 plus1, usually within half an hour of running
>> > mythfilldatabase.  Other data may be getting deleted as well but I
>> > notice
>> > the channels on which I have scheduled recordings.
>> >
>> > I can't see anything in the mythtvbackend log other than reschedules
>> > recording the drop in scheduled programs.  What backend process would
>> > delete
>> > programs and why?  OK, obviously programs are aged from the program
>> > table
>> > after the scheduled broadcast time, but these are future programs.
>> >
>>
>> I suspect you are running eit as well as mythbackend. EIT will not
>> have much info and is correcting (for want of a better word) the info
>> put there by mythfilldatabase.
>
>
> Nick,
>
> You are correct, I am running eit as well.  I thought about this, but none
> of the TVNZ data ever gets deleted, so I concluded that this was not the
> problem.  Also, having both eit and epg data saved me once or twice on my
> satellite system when the epg data got screwed up on SBS 2.  As far as I can
> see, the eit data should just 'correct' the last two entries.
>
> Anyway, in the interests of science, I disabled the eit data and so far, it
> looks like you are right.  I don't know why.  There are a lot less
> reschedule events in the log which I assume were provoked by getting the eit
> data, but the imported data survived a number of these events before being
> deleted.  Oh well, I guess I don't really need the eit data...

EIT on DVB-T in NZ is limited pretty well to now and next, whereas on
DVB-S it is pretty comprehensive.