[mythtv-users] How many live installations of MythTV are out in the wild?

[Mike Perkins]

On 22/04/16 11:05, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> On 19/04/16 00:17, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ....
>>> This should help: http://smolt.mythtv.org/static/stats/stats.html
>>
>> Be aware that (as I recall):
>>
>> (a) the data is opt-in, so it is going to be lower than "real"
>> (b) there has been various issues with some clients not
>>       reporting (or having their reports not processed) that
>>       are some mix of:
>>       (1) client issues (missing dependencies of some sort?)
>>       (2) server issues (RSN the service will get reworked
>>            according to the dev who is supporting a service
>>            that upstream has abandoned)
>
> hahahaha /me ROFLMAO
>
> RSN is extremely optimistic (i'm the aformentioned dev)
>
> The smolt service will be propped up (or more specifically the server
> it's running on ), until I can rewrite it in a modern language, and it
> will be cut over, hopefully in a seamless fashion.
>
> For what it's worth, i tried lifting and shifting the backend service,
> from the old server to the new server. Seems that the libraries used
> were changed in incompatible ways between versions, in such a way that
> the current code breaks. :(
>
> Before I get to smolt, first i'm rewriting the channel icon lookup
> service, and that is progressing nicely.
>
> https://github.com/MythTV/services :)
>
They also serve who grovel away in the background. Been there, did that, never really got appreciated.

You have my thanks for tackling some of the ancilliary work without which mythtv would be a much 
less useful application.

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Mike Perkins