[mythtv-users] Remotely monitor Backend is running

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:30:40 -0500, you wrote:

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>Hi Stephen!
>
>> So the libmyth-python package from MythTV v30 is not installed.
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>
>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'
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>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".
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>If you still get this message after installing libmyth-python, do "sudo 
>apt install python-future python-requests".
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>Traceback (most recent call last):
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>File "/home/barry/MythTV Backend 
>Scripts/test-mythbackend_v1_3-101421.py", line 35, in <module>
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>from MythTV.services_api import send as api
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>ImportError: No module named services_api
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>
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>OK, expected.
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>barry at NZXT:~$ sudo apt install libmyth-python
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>[sudo] password for barry:
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>Reading package lists... Done
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>Building dependency tree
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>Reading state information... Done
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>libmyth-python is already the newest version 
>(2:29.1+fixes.20180414.329c235-0ubuntu3).

This will be the problem, I think.  It is libmyth-python 0.29.1, not
v30.  So you will need to install the MythTV v30 repository and
update:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mythbuntu/30
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade