[mythtv-users] macOS Mythfrontend autobuilds via github

[James]

> On 4 Dec 2022, at 6:26 am, John Hoyt <john.hoyt at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 8:24 AM James <jam at tigger.ws <mailto:jam at tigger.ws>> wrote:
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>> On 3 Dec 2022, at 8:57 pm, John Hoyt <john.hoyt at gmail.com <mailto:john.hoyt at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Apologies for the lack of new builds lately.  The upgrade to macOS Ventura presented many a VM obstacle so I had to pivot to a new method of building the application.
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>> To solve the VM problem, I've managed to get autobuilds of Mythfrontend up and running using github actions for both fixes/32 and master (pre-33).  Currently the builds are done on the available github runners for intel architectures only (I'm working on an ARM / apple silicon solution...) for Catalina (10.15), Big Sur (11), and Monterey (12).  
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>> The github action auto uploads generated .dmg files to the usual SourceForge site (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtvformacosx/files/ <https://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtvformacosx/files/>). Note - look for the date stamp if multiple builds are present as I'm still struggling through the logic to archive off the old builds. The action is set to run weekly and will post updated dmg's if the fixes/32 or master git repos receive commits.
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>> For macOS 11 and 12, these applications and dmg files are both signed and notarized with a valid apple developer id.  
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>> I'll keep posting autobuilds for macOS versions that have supported github runners (warning Catalina is about to get retired this week...) and will update the runners list as additional macOS versions (and architectures) become available.
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>> The code for the github action is located here: https://github.com/MythTVforMacOS/compileMythfrontend <https://github.com/MythTVforMacOS/compileMythfrontend>
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>> Very happy to get any feedback and suggestions from the github actions knowledgeable users on this list on ways to improve the build and upload process.  I've just started playing around with github actions, and keep learning new tricks and features as I go.
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>> In regards to Ventura (intel and ARM based builds), I will keep doing those manually until a github runner is stood up to support those architectures.  I don't currently have a path forward for Big Sur/Monterey based ARM builds, but am looking into alternatives to using VMs (happy to get thoughts and ideas).
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> John you have undertaken a huge task. I hope you get joy from alll your toil. In any event I'm very comfortable and I use the work you did daily. Thankyou. My desktop machine is stuck at High Sierra, I already went too far taking my laptop to Monterey, I'll not upgrade further.
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> (It's political so I'll be brief:Apple are hell bent in locking their users tighter and tighter in their 'jail')
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> Of passing interest to you
> (I do all my work on a VM to my linux backend)
> neither frontend (High Sierra or Monterey) will retrieve meta data, often proceeding all the way to CoverArt and description but no further action.
> My BE's FE does retrieve the metadata and save it.
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> I don't use my macOS frontend to pull metadata all that often (I usually just let the backend handle it with a mythutil -scanvideos), so I definitely missed an issue when I migrated to python310.  Some updated builds should now be up on SourceForge that appear to resolve the initial python issue for me.  Curiously, I can grab data with "tmdb3tv.py" for movies, but "ttvdb4.py" is failing with TV shows.  
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> Any chance you can send a log output?  You can do this by running from the command prompt with 
> /Applications/mythfrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythfrontend.sh <http://mythfrontend.app/Contents/MacOS/mythfrontend.sh> -v


I put the logs here: http://tigger.ws/downloads/mythlog.tgz <http://tigger.ws/downloads/mythlog.tgz>

I reset details and retrieved log (which failed), then immediately did so on my linux box.
These two lookups failed *immediatly*. Some times lookup proceeds to coverart and desription THEN fails.
I'll do more if you need more. say so.
James

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