[mythtv-users] elementary MiroBridge error

Greg Woods greg at gregandeva.net
Sat Oct 17 13:21:00 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 14:10 -0700, Robert McNamara wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> the easiest way to fix my problem might be to get rid of
> > the mysql.txt file and let Myth create a config.xml file for me? 
> 
> 
> Exactly right, mythfrontend creates it for you.  

OK, I tried this. It turns out that mythfrontend creates an empty
config.xml file, then comes up with the default (MythCenter) theme. All
the recordings are visible so it has clearly connected to the database,
but it doesn't remember my theme setting any more. I suspect it just
connects to "localhost" by default, whereas my mysql.txt file had the IP
address of eth0. This means the theme info is stored in the database on
a per-host basis? That would explain what I saw.

Needless to say, mirobridge doesn't like the empty config.xml file
either.

So I went to my upstairs desktop frontend, found the config.xml file
there, and used that one. This works for mythfrontend (haven't tried
restarting mythbackend yet, I may need more copies of config.xml in more
locations), and mirobridge gets a little further:

[mythtv at confusion mirobridge]$ ./mirobridge.py -sV
2009-10-17 07:15:59,284 - mirobridge - INFO - Using python library
'pyparsing' version 1.5.0
2009-10-17 07:16:00,608 - mirobridge - INFO - Miro Bridge version v0.4.6
with Miro version 2.0.5
2009-10-17 07:16:00,609 - mirobridge - INFO - Using
mirobridge_interpreter_2_0_3
2009-10-17 07:16:00,686 - mirobridge - INFO - Miro Version (2.0.5 r9790)
2009-10-17 07:16:00,687 - mirobridge - INFO - Base Miro Video Directory
(/mythvideo2)
2009-10-17 07:16:00,687 - mirobridge - INFO - 
2009-10-17 07:16:00,693 - mirobridge - ERROR - (episodeimagedir)
directory is not set or does not exist(mythvideo.screenshotDir)
2009-10-17 07:16:00,695 - mirobridge - ERROR - (fanartdir) directory is
not set or does not exist(mythvideo.fanartDir)
2009-10-17 07:16:00,698 - mirobridge - ERROR - (posterdir) directory is
not set or does not exist(VideoArtworkDir)
2009-10-17 07:16:00,700 - mirobridge - ERROR - (bannerdir) directory is
not set or does not exist(mythvideo.bannerDir)
2009-10-17 07:16:00,701 - mirobridge - CRITICAL - There must be a
directory for Videos and each graphics type. The (posterdir) directory
is missing.

In this case, I haven't been a regular user of Mythvideo up to now,
although I have set up a videos storage area in mythtv-setup.  I suppose
if I go in and create a video through mythfrontend, it may create the
necessary directories. I'll have to figure out how to do that.

--Greg




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