Hi Guys
below is an email from the oztivo list, for those who are using Oztivo just need to be aware there are changes coming on thursday.
Matt
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:14:21AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> I am going to set an arbitrary "XML transition flag day" of September 8th.
> On that day, XML fetching using the
http://minnie.tuhs.org/tivo-bin/tvguide.pl
> URL will stop working. But from now onwards, XML fetching using the URL
>
http://minnie.tuhs.org/tivo-bin/xmlguide.pl will work, and is the preferred
> URL to use.
>
> The parameters to
http://minnie.tuhs.org/tivo-bin/xmlguide.pl are:
>
> station= is optional.
> daynum= is optional. If specified, only data for that day is returned.
> daynumfirst= is optional. If specified, data from that day onwards
> is returned.
> If neither daynum nor daynumfirst are specified, data from today
> onwards is returned.
> If no parameters are specified, data for all of your stations
> from today onwards is returned. This is the best option to choose.
Just a quick reminder that the "XML transition flag day" is coming
up on Thursday, and I plan on turning off XML fetching via tvguide.pl
in the afternoon.
Also, I'm going to implement some heuristics to help lower the
impact that xmlguide.pl has on minnie's CPU load. If the station
param is set, there will be a 1-second delay between requests. If
the station and daynums params are set, there will be a 3-second
delay between requests, and the script will run at the lowest process
priority. Only a request to xmlguide.pl with no params will run at
normal priority. This should help reduce the load peaks to below 16
(see the load graph at
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Stats/dayload.gif)
Cheers,
