diff --git a/python/lsst/ts/rubintv/background/currentpoller.py b/python/lsst/ts/rubintv/background/currentpoller.py
index f37930f..2dfee30 100644
--- a/python/lsst/ts/rubintv/background/currentpoller.py
+++ b/python/lsst/ts/rubintv/background/currentpoller.py
@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ async def clear_todays_data(self) -> None:
         self._night_reports = {}
 
     async def check_for_empty_per_day_channels(self) -> None:
+        """Creates a store of channel prefixes for per-day data that's not
+        been received over the course of a day's polling. The prefixes use the
+        date that's been rolled over from, i.e. yesterday's date, to continue
+        to look for that data into the new day.
+        """
         for location in self.locations:
             # clear out yesterday's stash
             self._yesterday_prefixes[location.name] = []
@@ -123,6 +128,20 @@ async def poll_buckets_for_todays_data(self, test_day: str = "") -> None:
                 logger.exception("Caught exception during poll for data")
 
     async def poll_for_yesterdays_per_day(self, location: Location) -> None:
+        """Uses the store of prefixes for yesterday's missing per-day data to
+        poll for new objects that have maybe been delayed in processing (this
+        will mainly be movies) and didn't appear in the bucket before the day
+        rolled over.
+        Multiple objects will be ignored except for the most recent.
+        If an object is found in the bucket, the current page is notified.
+        Note: This does not effect historical pages.
+
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        location : Location
+            A given location.
+        """
         client = self._s3clients[location.name]
         found = []
         for prefix in self._yesterday_prefixes.get(location.name, []):
diff --git a/tests/background/currentpoller_test.py b/tests/background/currentpoller_test.py
index 3caffaf..da130b5 100644
--- a/tests/background/currentpoller_test.py
+++ b/tests/background/currentpoller_test.py
@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ async def test_poll_buckets_for_today_process_and_store_seq_events(
     await current_poller.poll_buckets_for_todays_data()
 
     mocked_objs_keys = rubin_data_mocker.events.keys()
-    print(mocked_objs_keys)
 
     # make sure the keys for the location/cameras match up
     current_keys = sorted([k for k in current_poller._events.keys()])