Success stories with MythTV and Schedule Direct?

[Frank DiPrete]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:57 -0400, Jeff Creem wrote:
> Frank DiPrete wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 16:58 -0400, Ted Roche wrote:
> >   
> >> 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.")
> >>
> >> For those not following along, a subsidiary of the Tribune Media cartel
> >> (Zap2It Labs) had been providing the data gratis to the community using
> >> their own server resources; something's changed and they've decided not
> >> to do that. Schedules Direct was formed as a non-profit and has
> >> scrambled to license the data and pass it on to the many PVR
> >> communities. Interestingly, they approached a number of companies which
> >> had accumulated the data, but were not able to work out a payment with
> >> anyone other than the Tribune folks.
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.schedulesdirect.org
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Anybody else using SD with comcast ? (nashua)
> >
> > After fixing the channel name prob, The feed for 7 channels returns no
> > program data. notable channels are 62 scifi, 63 animal, and 54 food.
> >
> >
> >   
> I am using SD with comcast in Nashua. I had no channel name problems as 
> a result of the switch and I have program data for 62. 63 and 54.
> 

SD has a post about this problem. If anyone else runs into it the fix is
posted here:

http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=295

In short, truncating the program table and running  mythfilldatabase
--refresh-all to reload all the data fixes the problem.





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