[mythtv-users] Database & Storeage Directory Housekeeper

[Harry Coin]

On 1/31/2012 6:37 PM, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
> a) Cleanup of settings is pretty much irrelevent.  The only benefit of
> deleting them is recovery of a tiny bit of HDD space on the MySQL
> server.

How about all the 'tuner X is offline' on the status screen... when it 
turns out 'tuner X' hasn't been installed for over a year and there is 
no way to delete it as the backend that configured it has died (short of 
mysql skills).

Look it all turns on whether you expect users to have basic mysql 
skills.  If you do, then none of this matters since it doesn't happen 
often.  If myth is supposed to 'just work' and be a self-contained 
solution for audio / video then this needs addressing.  In your copious 
free time of course!

> b) In theory, when you decommission a backend with recordings <good
stuff snipped>

"Decommission" --such a wonderfully planned word.  In my world the 
background daemon that's supposed to send an email 'your system will 
croak in one week, decommission now' never works for me!

Look the 'reset all settings to defaults' button is fine for me.  It's 
not perfect but it gets the job done without having folk learn mysql, 
without having to plod through all the possible fields who knows what 
developer might have set to a 
no-longer-appropriate-breaks-things-in-a-weird-way-nobody-heard-of-before setting, 
all the possible settings and puzzle through which are inapt because the 
hardware changed.  The only downside is that folk who show up will have 
to go through a little frontend re-setup once in a blue moon and that's 
no big deal.


I do appreciate your work, myth has been a fun hobby/project for me for 
quite some time.

































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Harry Coin
Quiet Fountain LLC
2118 Lundy Ln
Bettendorf, Iowa 52722 USA
Office: 563 332 4970x101 Fax: 563 332 9633
Mobile: 563 650 7800

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