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

Sun Feb 28 02:37:28 UTC 2021

Hoi Jay,

Sunday, February 28, 2021, 3:08:06 AM, you wrote:

> On 2/27/21 5:22 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>> On 2/27/21 5:15 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>> On 2/27/21 4:53 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>> Hoi Jay,
>>>>
>>>> Sunday, February 28, 2021, 1:27:20 AM, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2/27/21 4:11 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>> When I compare the previous tmdb3 directory with the new tmdb3 
>>>>> directory
>>>>> (in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV), I notice that the new
>>>>> tvdb3 directory is missing the lookup.py script.  Is that needed?  
>>>>> Where
>>>>> do I get it for the new version?
>>>>> Jay
>>>>
>>>> Have you installed the 31 bindings in python3 or have you updated the
>>>> python2 bindings from your mythtv version?
>>>> And have you correspondingly adapted the first line of the grabber
>>>> files under /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television and Movie to point
>>>> to the right python version?
>>>>
>>>> What is the response to:
>>>> tvmaze.py -t
>>>> tmdb3tv.py -t
>>>> tmdb3.py -t
>>>>
>>>> If either of the grabber file does not respond with:
>>>> "Everything appears in order."
>>>> it probably will not be seen as a valid option and won't show in the
>>>> selection list.
>>>>
>>>> Tot mails,
>>>>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yes, I have done each of those tasks, and the test option reports 
>>> everything looks okay.
>>> jay at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata$ ./Television/tmdb3tv.py -t
>>> Everything appears in order.
>>> jay at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata$ ./Television/tvmaze.py -t
>>> Everything appears in order.
>>> jay at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata$ ./Movie/tmdb3.py -t
>>> Everything appears in order.
>>> jay at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata$
>>> Jay
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>> I just now went back to the frontend and tried to select the new 
>> metadata sources again.  The new Movie and new Television choices now 
>> show up (yeah).  I selected the new tmdb V3 sources for both Movies and 
>> Television (tvmaze still does not pass it's tests due to some kind of 
>> TLS certificate issue).  I will restart the frontend and backend.
>> How do I test that this works from within MythTV?
>> Jay
>> _______________________________________________
> I am oh so close, but not quite there yet.
> I next ran into the query.isnumeric() issue, which I corrected by 
> changing to isdigit() as suggested elsewhere in this thread.  However,
> lookups are still failing.  If I run:
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -M Monk
> the script returns valid XML text, which contains an inetref value of 
> 1695.  But when I then run:
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N 1695
> I get an error (ERROR: Episode not found: ['1695']
> What am I missing here?
> Jay

You need to add an episode title. It is on the next line in Peters
mail. I at first missed that too! ;-)
/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N 1695
"Mr. Monk and the Psychic"

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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