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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Jay,

Sunday, February 28, 2021, 3:54:54 AM, you wrote:

> On 2/27/21 5:40 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> Hoi Jay,
>> 
>> Sunday, February 28, 2021, 2:22:15 AM, you wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2/27/21 5:15 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> If you want to find the correct inetref for the new grabber go to the
>> schedule as there you can initiate a search:
>> m > Recording Options > Edit Recording Schedule
>> goto Metadata Options and remove there the old inetref.
>> Click on Perform Query
>> If you are satisfied, save the adapted schedule. All new recordings
>> will get the new inetref. To adapt old recording, write down the new
>> inetref and go:
>> m > Recording Options > Change Recording Metadata
>> adapt the inetref there and run the lookup job:
>> m > Job Options > Begin Metadata Lookup
>> 
>> 
>> Tot mails,
>>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>> 
>>
> I went to Watch Recordings and selected my recorded show.  Then pressed
> 'e' which brought up a menu with Metadata Option.  Selecting that 
> allowed me to change the inetref number, select Done, then select Save.
> However selecting 'm' and and Job Options -> Begin Metadata Lookup seems
> to do nothing.  Looking at the Backend Status (using mythweb), no job is
> even started.  I would at least expect it to start, even if it then failed.
> Jay
> _______________________________________________


Have you upgraded both back- and frontend? Or are they on the same
machine.

The e key is editing the rule and does not change the settings for the
current show. See above how to do that.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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