[mythtv-users] Upgrade your system for TheTVDB update on October 1st 2017

[Jay Foster]

On 09/20/2017 08:40 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
> On 09/20/2017 07:59 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
>> On 09/20/2017 09:55 AM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>> Most things seem to be working, except meta data lookups all fail 
>>> with exit status 128.  Any ideas?
>>
>> Yes, try creating: ~mythtv/.mythtv/cache/tvdb_api (writable
>> by user mythtv of course.)
>>
> My backend does not have a ~mythtv/.mythtv/cache directory:
>
> ls -CF /home/mythtv/.mythtv/
> 3rdParty/                          channels/       themes/
> Cache-mythbackend-mythbox/         config.xml@     tmp/
> Cache-mythfilldatabase-mythbox/    MythNetvision/
> Cache-mythmetadatalookup-mythbox/  pytmdb3.cache
>
> The backend does have a ~<my_user>/.mythtv/cache directory. I created 
> the tvdb_api directory there and ran the following command from the 
> command line:
>
> jay at mythbox:~$ /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a 
> US -N "77 Sunset Strip" "5"
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:339: 
> SNIMissingWarning: An HTTPS request has been made, but the SNI 
> (Subject Name Indication) extension to TLS is not available on this 
> platform. This may cause the server to present an incorrect TLS 
> certificate, which can cause validation failures. You can upgrade to a 
> newer version of Python to solve this. For more information, see 
> https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings
>   SNIMissingWarning
> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/urllib3/util/ssl_.py:137: 
> InsecurePlatformWarning: A true SSLContext object is not available. 
> This prevents urllib3 from configuring SSL appropriately and may cause 
> certain SSL connections to fail. You can upgrade to a newer version of 
> Python to solve this. For more information, see 
> https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced-usage.html#ssl-warnings
>   InsecurePlatformWarning
> jay at mythbox:~$ echo $?
> 0
>
> This resulted in a ~jay/.mythtv/cache/tvdb_api/tvdb_api.sqlite file 
> being created.  Despite the warning messages, the exit status is 0.
>
> I then tried running a metadata lookup from the frontend, but it still 
> fails with exit status 128.
>
>
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I added a symlink  /home/mythtv/.mythtv/cache -> /home/jay/.mythtv/cache 
and the metadata lookups now seem to be working.