On 12/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:chris@cpr.homelinux.net">chris@cpr.homelinux.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:chris@cpr.homelinux.net">chris@cpr.homelinux.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 10:47:25AM -0600, Chad Jannusch wrote:<br>> Watch out with that though, because as right now, I still can't get any data
<br>> from Zap2it (DirecTV - Champaign, IL), and mythfilldatabase seems to clear out<br>> everything else with the "correct" No data info. So you might end up loosing<br>> the data you already have.<br>
<br>Does it connect if you run the mythfilldatabase manually?<br><br>It occurred to me that they might be trying to "load balance" by simply<br>capping the number of simultaneous connections, so that those who are
<br>still using the default connection times (and therefore swamping the<br>service at peak times while leaving it idle at other times) get served<br>on a lottery basis. My mythfilldatabase runs at 3:05pm Eastern and has
<br>NEVER MISSED A SINGLE DAY during all of the times people are reporting<br>Zap2It to be broken. FWIW, the downloads happen faster if you avoid<br>the peak periods as well.<br><br>--<br>Joke template: Three guys walk into a bar. One of them is a wee bit
<br>stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>Well I'm actually in Charleston. Good Ol' EIU, but we get the Champaign
DTV schedule. And to answer Chris, yep, I tried mythfilldatabase just
from the console as well, Zap2it just kept feeding me 8kb data files
with nothing of use (I'm assuming they were full of 'No Data' entries
or somesuch), around 12:30 today (it's been out since around 8am
yesterday) the Zap2it started giving me listings again. So all is well.
I'm assuming it was related to the problems they've been having the
past couple of days. As far as the load balancing theory, I'm not too
sure, I even tried to create a second account with listings from a
nearby cable provider and that wasn't pulling in anything either.
<br>
<span class="sg"><br><br>--Chad</span>