[mythtv-users] Can't download Artwork

[Marlon Buchanan]

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> From: Damian <myth at surr.co.uk>
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 12:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Can't download Artwork
> 
>
>On 27/04/2016 15:39, Damian wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> OK, so I've got things set up on the backend. Just using the frontend 
>> on the same backend/server machine at the moment. I'll get the other 
>> frontends set up once it's all working.
>>
>> If I go into videos, and download meta data for a video, it's getting 
>> the data, but not the artwork. It's giving me the error:
>>
>> Failed to retrieve image(s)
>> MythVideo
>> See logs
>>
>> I've got Storage Group directories set up for Cover Art, Fan Art, 
>> Screenshots and Banners, and as far as I can tell, the permissions are 
>> all set up fine.
>>
>> What can be causing this?
>>
>> And how do I look at whatever log it wants me to look at?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Damian
>>
>Update,
>
>I just triple checked the spellings of all of the entries in the Storage 
>Groups section in the backend setup. They all seem fine.
>
>And MythTV seems to be able to write to the storage settings that a set 
>up, because I gave them all the same ownership and permissions, and 
>watching live tv is working fine.
>
>Any ideas what's going on?
>
>Do the cover art, fan art and banner storage groups need to be different 
>in some way?
>
>Thanks,
>Damian
>
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I'm not sure if it is a bug or storage groups for artwork work differently or what. But when I had this problem I looked at my logs and found that it was trying and failing to write artwork using a slave backend storage group (even though I hadn't defined the storage group on the slave backend, because I thought I wasn't supposed to). I fixed it by defining those artwork storage groups on that slave backend, which I don't do for any other storage groups. I don't know if that was the right fix, but it worked.