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

Jay Foster jayf0ster at roadrunner.com
Sun Feb 28 02:48:56 UTC 2021 

On 2/27/21 6:37 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> 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
> 
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
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> 
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> 
Thanks, that was it.  Oddly, the first query (-M Monk) returned the 
inetref of 1695, but I could not find the episode title string in the 
output, so I do not know where the "Mr. Monk and the Psychic" comes from.

I still do not think this is working from within MythTV, though.
Jay

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