Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

[Frank DiPrete]

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 17:58 -0400, Dave Johnson wrote:
> Ted Roche writes:
> > Just checking in to find out if anyone has switched their MythTV setups
> > over to Schedules Direct [1]? ("Schedules Direct is a non-profit
> > organization that provides raw U.S./Canadian tv listing data to Free and
> > Open Source Applications. Those applications then use the data to
> > provide things like PVR functionality, search tools, and private channel
> > grids.")
> 
> Singed up friday, and then went through the painful process of
> upgrading 1 backend and 2 frontends from 0.19 to 0.20.2..
> 
> The prepackaged myth binaries required tons of upgrades as usual
> (Debian sarge to etch plus a few dozen unstable packages) breaking
> lots of minor things like squid, cups, nis, nfs (nfs sure breaks in
> suttle ways when rpc.statd just isn't started for some reason
> post-upgrade)
> 
> Schedules Direct seems to work just fine.  The upgrade of mythtv itself
> wasn't bad but now I have to get used to a different set of bugs...
> 
> Only 3 misterious backend crashes so far :(
> 

Is it possible to just compile the new schedule grabber (svn url found?)
without updating the whole thing? My 0.20 compiled from source is very
stable ...