[mythtv-users] Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021

[Jay Foster]

On 2/27/21 1:37 PM, John Finlay via mythtv-users wrote:
> On 2/27/2021 1:18 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>> On 2/26/21 6:18 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2/25/21 4:22 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>> I have tested the integration with mythtv and that works. Even beter
>>>> than I had expected!
>>>> I thought it possible that mythmetadatalookup would simply use the
>>>> script name in the inetref, but I thought first to test what would
>>>> happen if I renamed tvmaze.py to ttvdb.py and it worked. So good that
>>>> the inetref was after the hit changed to reflect tvmaze.py.
>>>>
>>>> However, if you do not copy either tvmaze.py or tmdb3tv.py to ttvdb.py
>>>> searches won't work, it will always come up with a tmdb3.py reference.
>>>>
>>>> So choose which of the two you want and copy (or simlink) that one to
>>>> ttvdb.py.
>>>
>>> Hi Hika
>>>
>>> Can you explain this. I don't understand.
>>>
>>> All you need to do is go into mythfrontend -> setup -> Artwork and 
>>> Data Sources -> Television Metadata Source
>>>
>>> Change there to whichever script you want and it will use that script 
>>> for shows that do not have the inetref filled in.
>>>
>>> If you link one of the other script names to ttvdb.py then those 
>>> recording rules and recorded shows that have ttvdb.py_nnnnn in the 
>>> inetref will lookup the wrong show because the nnnnn is different for 
>>> each of the sources.
>>>
>>> Maybe this works differently in 0.27. Does 0.27 have the Artwork and 
>>> Data Sources entry?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
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>>
>> This is not working for me with 0.28.  I go to mythfrontend -> setup 
>> -> Artwork and Data Source -> Television, but there is only one choice 
>> there (TheTVDB.com).  This is the name when using the previous tvdb.py 
>> script.  Is it also the correct name for the new tvdb3tv.py script? 
>> And why do I not see tvmaze as a choice? I tried restarting the 
>> backend and frontend, but makes no difference.
>>
> 
> Did you copy tmdb3tv.py to the "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television" 
> driectory? On 0.29 the mythtv frontend seems to scan the contents of the 
> directory to populate the Artwork and Data Sources choices.
> 
> John
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Yes I have.
jay at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata$ ls -l Television/
total 188
-rwxrwxr-x 1 jay  jay    5555 Feb 26 11:25 tmdb3tv.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 133392 Aug 26  2018 ttvdb.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    248 Jan 26  2018 tvdb_test.conf
-rwxrwxr-x 1 jay  jay   21512 Feb 27 12:59 tvmaze.py
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jay  jay   17220 Feb 26 11:25 tvmaze_tests.txt
jay at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata$

 From the frontend, when I go to Artwork and Data Sources, I see a brief 
popup stating that MythTV is scanning sources, but the Television 
selection box has only one choice filled in (the existing ttvdb.py).
Jay