[mythtv-users] mythtv-status

[Another Sillyname]

Sorry, brain f*rt.

That of course should have been

mythtv-status --verbose

On 3 May 2017 at 21:53, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Guys
>
> This bug also occurs if you run as root, run mythtv-status --default
> as the default non root user and it's OK.
>
>
>
> On 3 May 2017 at 11:06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 05/03/2017 05:41 AM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>>
>>> I recently discovered what I think must be a bug in the 0.28 MythTV
>>> Perl bindings, which might be affecting mythtv-status (I have not
>>> looked its code to see).
>>>
>>> If you do this:
>>>
>>>    $myth = new MythTV();
>>>
>>> it fails to connect.
>>>
>>> If you do this:
>>>
>>>    $myth = new MythTV({'connect' => 0});
>>>
>>> it does work.  I do not know Perl at all, so I have no idea what is
>>> going on.  I just happened to be trying to use some code that uses the
>>> MythTV Perl bindings and worked this out by comparing some code that
>>> was working in optimize_mythdb with the code that was not working.
>>
>>
>> That argument simply tells the bindings not to connect to the backend--which
>> means you can only then use the database, which doesn't have a lot of
>> information (some of which mythtv-status uses).  So it's back to what Andrew
>> said--you need to fix your bindings to be able to connect to the backend.
>> See his previous post.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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