[mythtv-users] Remotely monitor Backend is running

[Bill Meek]

On 10/14/21 5:30 PM, Barry Martin wrote:
> 
> Hi Stephen!
> 
>> So the libmyth-python package from MythTV v30 is not installed.
> 
> 
> Sorry about the delay in responding: took my friend to urgent care facility this morning. Nothing overly serious a prescription for antibiotics
> shouldn’t cure in a week. (In U.S. ‘urgent care facility’ is a walk-in medical site for symptoms less than requiring Emergency Room treatment.)
> 
> 
> OK, back to business. Downloaded the current test-mythbackend.py <http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/test-mythbackend.py> – looks to be v.1.3 of
> October 12^th still. Modified initial line to use python2.
> 
> 
> barry at NZXT:~$ python '/home/barry/MythTV Backend Scripts/test-mythbackend_v1_3-101421.py'
> 
> Please install the MythTV services_api version compatible with your MythTV backend.
> 
> In Ubuntu, to get the current version of the MythTV services_api, do "sudo apt install libmyth-python".
> 
> If you still get this message after installing libmyth-python, do "sudo apt install python-future python-requests".
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
> File "/home/barry/MythTV Backend Scripts/test-mythbackend_v1_3-101421.py", line 35, in <module>
> 
> from MythTV.services_api import send as api
> 
> ImportError: No module named services_api
> 
> 
> 
> OK, expected.
> 
> 
> barry at NZXT:~$ sudo apt install libmyth-python
> 
> [sudo] password for barry:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> 
> Building dependency tree
> 
> Reading state information... Done
> 
> libmyth-python is already the newest version (2:29.1+fixes.20180414.329c235-0ubuntu3).
> 
> The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
> 
> libpdf-api2-perl
> 
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
> 
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
> 
> 
> 
> Pretty much expected. Re-ran test-mythbackend_v1_3-101421.py' – same error. Expected.
> 
> 
> 
> barry at NZXT:~$ sudo apt install python-future python-requests
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> 
> Building dependency tree
> 
> Reading state information... Done
> 
> python-future is already the newest version (0.15.2-4ubuntu2).
> 
> python-requests is already the newest version (2.18.4-2ubuntu0.1).
> 
> The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
> 
> libpdf-api2-perl
> 
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
> 
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
> 
> 
> 
> Still “ImportError: No module named services_api “ – obviously I’m doing something not quite right. Seems like I need to tell it which version
> (30) to download.

The list of files in the libmyth-python package is here and it looks OK. Assuming you're on Bionic

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/libmyth-python/filelist

I can't explain why they're not being loaded.

-- 
Bill