[mythtv-users] 0.28 or port external recorder?

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie <
stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:

> On 25/09/15 14:36, Karl Newman wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 4:57 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie
> > <stuarta at squashedfrog.net <mailto:stuarta at squashedfrog.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 22/09/15 16:15, Karl Newman wrote:
> >     > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Fred Hamilton <fred at yonkitime.com
> >     <mailto:fred at yonkitime.com>
> >     > <mailto:fred at yonkitime.com <mailto:fred at yonkitime.com>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     On Monday, September 21, 2015, eric <bernhart2002 at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:bernhart2002 at gmail.com>
> >     >     <mailto:bernhart2002 at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:bernhart2002 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >         Hello all, I was wondering if it is possible to port the
> >     >         external recorder option to .27? If not what is the status
> of
> >     >         0.28? Is it stable enough for use?
> >     >
> >     >
> >     >     I like to live dangerously so I've been running 0.28 for well
> >     over a
> >     >     year, downloading the latest updates a few times a week, and
> it's
> >     >     worked reliably the whole time.  There may have been one or two
> >     >     updates that broke something, but it was always minor and
> fixed in
> >     >     the next update.
> >     >
> >     >     No regrets.
> >     >
> >     > Be aware that if you upgrade to 0.28 you will lose the use of
> mythweb.
> >     > There is a built-in webserver on the backend but I don't know how
> >     > developed it is. It is doubtful if it fully replicates all the
> mythweb
> >     > functionality yet.
> >     >
> >
> >     Not true at all. mythweb still works with 0.28 and it won't be
> removed
> >     until we have the backend webserver up to feature parity.
> >
> >     Regards
> >     Stuart Auchterlonie
> >
> >
> > I'm very glad that decision was made. Early on in the 0.28 development
> > process I heard that 0.27 was going to be the last version/series that
> > supported it.
> >
>
> The thing is, that was rumour based upon the fact that we aren't making
> any enhancements to it. Some took that to be we were killing it with
> 0.28.
>
> So the backend webserver is our focus, but I'll still apply patches to
> keep it working if stuff breaks.
>
> Thanks! This is where I got that impression from:
http://lists.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2014-September/368000.html
In the past I have submitted patches for mythweb. There's one issue that's
bugged me for a while where the Delete+Rerecord doesn't work (recording is
deleted, but not marked to re-record). I suspect it happened when the UTC
change occurred, and probably the code path it uses is only used by
mythweb, which is why it hasn't really been noticed. My suspicion is that
it's a timezone conversion thing. I dug through the backend code at one
point but couldn't figure out what format of arguments it was expecting. In
my limited experimenting I couldn't get it to work anyway.

Karl
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