[mythtvnz] Xmltv NZ configuration in Mythtv

[Ross and Jemima Knudsen]

Hi Aaron,

This will be my first post to try and help someone. Its time to give 
back. I've tried setting cron jobs manually and not had a lot of luck so 
often I would end up not recording something because I ran out of guide! 
But the settings to automatically update seem to be built into MythTv.

If you go to Setup > General > Mythfilldatabase tab you can check the 
box which enables all the options. My settings are:
program: /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
arguments:
log path:
run frequency: 1
execution start: 1
execution end: 23
deselect run grabber at time specified by the grabber

Basically the biggest help was understanding that MythTv will try and 
run the grabber between the hours specified in execution start and 
execution end (in my case between 1am and 11pm, the widest range I 
trusted). It seems to have worked once so far for me.

Rossco

Aaron Drysdale wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Following advice from this mailing list last week, I downloaded a 
> python script, installed XMLTV and configured my Mythtv backend to use 
> xmltv data to populate the EPG. Once it was all installed and 
> configured, I thought it would then download new Xml data 
> automatically to keep 7 days of EPG, however last night when I checked 
> I found that the guide hadn’t updated since I installed it.
>
> I tried running mythfilldatabase manually from a terminal window, and 
> sure enough it downloaded new data and updated the guide.
>
> So, do I need to created a cron task to do this automatically? Or, is 
> something in my configuration of this in the Myth backend broken? If I 
> need setup a task to do this, should I run mythfilldatabase, or the 
> python script itself?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Aaron
>
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