[mythtvnz] TV listings problem

[David Moore]

On 09/11/11 17:21, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:59:56 +1300, you wrote:
>
>
>> Running mythfilldatabase temporarily resolves the problem. Mythweb is
>> reporting that mythfilldatabase runs are going ahead automatically but
>> are not inserting any new data (even though the log says otherwise). I
>> suppose this could just be because I am manually running
>> mythfilldatabase fairly often to work around the above.
>
> What the status page means by "no new data" seems to mean that no new
> programmes were added, rather than no data was updated.  And I have
> seen "no new data" reported when I had only a very few new programmes
> added after I ran a new update fairly soon after a previous update. So
> I suspect that "no new data" may be reported when the number of new
> programmes for a source is less than a small number eg 10.  The logs
> give the real picture of what happened.
>
True. I run EPG updates (from broadcast MHEG data) every hour and have 
noticed that sometimes the description of a show changes but the 
listings status says "mythfilldatabase ran but no new data was 
inserted....". So the EPG update works but the status is incorrect 
sometimes.