[mythtv-users] Understanding Schedules Direct change in V0.31

[William Bixby]

I have Myth 27 running on Ubuntu 14.04 (Runs great, so if it isn't 
broken, don't fix it theory!)

I know I need to update to currently supported releases.
I plan a project  this summer to move to Ubuntu 20.04, and likely Mythtv 31.
I have a new SSD for the current OS and a partition for the Myth 
database with space allocated for a new, separate OS install and a copy 
of the database, no update in place!

But I assume I can't update the SD in Myth 27 to XMLTV.  Is there 
release of Mythtv that I can upgrade to from 27 and then update to 
XMLTV? Then migrate that setup to 31?

I do understand that my 14.04 OS is too old for a decent current release 
of Mythtv, so I will likely need several steps.
1) An OS release that supports Myth 29 or 30
2) migrate the (copy of) Mythtv 27 database to that
3) update to XMLTV
4) when all that is running smoothly, update it in place to Ubuntu 20.04 
and Mythtv 31.


Have I got a reasonable plan?


On 4/2/20 10:00 AM, Bill Meek wrote:
> On 4/2/20 8:30 AM, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>>
>> Relatively simple question: Do I understand correctly that, when I 
>> upgrade
>> my setup to V0.31 , I will need to go through the manual steps 
>> outlined in
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/XMLTV#Schedules_Direct_Setup to enable the
>> Schedules Direct XMLTV ? Obtain the grabbers, run from command line, this
>> isn't included in the packaging (Fedora / RPM Fusion) or mythtvsetup 
>> as of
>> yet ?
>>
>> There is no judgement intended, I just want to know how much time to
>> schedule around the upgrade. Thank you for all the hard work you do !
> 
> Slight detail, you can switch before upgrading to v31. That way you can
> test/know that it's working beforehand.
> 

-- 
Bill Bixby
Laconia NH