[mythtv-users] hostname problem in MythArchive

[John Pilkington]

On 28/08/12 23:58, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>
>
> On 29 August 2012 02:19, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 27/08/12 23:53, John Pilkington wrote:
>
>         Since installing 0.25-fixes on my main box I've had problems with
>         MythArchive.  I think this may be because the config settings are
>         defined by the frontend but are being read using the hostname of the
>         backend.  The lines in the mythburn.py script read
>
>         DB = MythTV.MythDB()
>         configHostname = DB.gethostname()
>
>         I've tried a direct hack in mythburn.py that looked hopeful.
>           What would
>         be the way of getting the frontend's 'Custom Identifier' from the DB
>         instead?
>
>
>     OK, it works for me (in creation of a playable DVD) if the 'Custom
>     identifier' from Frontend Setup > General > page 2 is used as
>     configHostname.
>
>     If defined it's LocalHostName in ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt.  Isn't that
>     the file that's being phased out?  config.xml doesn't have it and I
>     haven't found it in the DB.
>
>     I suspect this is also the cause of the lack of a progress log in
>     'Create an Archive' mode, Ticket #10505, but I don't think that's
>     done through mythburn.py and my hack doesn't change it.  A usable
>     Archive is created.
>
>     A warning: while I was investigating this, a chmod called within
>     mythburn.py walked recursively all over my home directory.  I've
>     commented that line out.  There are some multi-delete sections too...
>
>
>     John P
>
>
> Semi OT: is mytharchive 0.25-fixes Storage Group friendly?
>
> Tried using this for the first time since atleast 0.23 and it failed
> saying it couldn't locate the file from either Videos or files.
>
> Can anyone confirm?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony
>

I've not used it before for anything other than recordings, now all from 
dvb-t, and it seems ok with Storage Groups there.  The problem above 
will affect you if you have the 'Custom identifier' defined and you 
haven't made the suggested edits in mythburn.py.  What will happen then 
depends on whatever ancient configuration it picks up.

Now 'Files' shows me my full (single box) file system and seems to work 
on a short recording selected in that way; although when I selected a 
file from the mythlink output folder its reported size was several TB, 
mistaking Bytes for MBytes.

'Videos' doesn't show any directory structure, though.  Most of my 
videos are in iso format anyway.  Maybe the magic should work there, but 
I haven't tried.  Their names are shown.

John