[mythtv-users] web backend

[James Linder]

> On Dec 24, 2023, at 06:01, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>> On Dec 24, 2023, at 05:44, James Linder <jam at tigger.ws> wrote:
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>>> On Dec 24, 2023, at 03:28, Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On 12/23/23 14:11, Peter Bennett wrote:
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>>>> On 12/23/23 00:59, James Linder wrote:
>>>>> Peter I’m going to fiddle. mythweb does a pretty good job of parsing categories.
>>>>> I see last night offering high lighted 1 movie but lumped 3 more as “tv show”
>>>>> Can you give me a 3 line guide on howto please (or a pointer)
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>>>>> James
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> There are 4 cat-types: Movie, tv show, sports, series. That is what I am using to color the guided.
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>>>> mythweb used category to color it, but there are over 100 categories and I could not manage to figure out 100 colors. Mythweb only supports 32 of the categories, everything else is shown brown.
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>>>> I can point you to the lists if you like. If you want to figure out 100 plus colors and associate them with categories I will implement it in the code.  Note mythweb has a set of colors for each theme. The colors you use need to work with the text that goes over them.
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>>>> Peter
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>>> Note: The category is now shown in the grid under the title.
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>> Peter rather than burdon you with infinite requests I thought I’d fiddle, then offer suggestions.
>> I’m comfotable with Qt and with php, but I know nothing about your implementation (rust ?). I once saw you
>> wrote about howto setup a dev environment but I cant find it.
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> This looks like a suitable pointer https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Web_Application_Development

I real suggestion
If [Restart Backend] fails a one line explanation would be good

I, still playing with test machine, omitted to fill backend address. Restart failed. [as did all my attempts, the log just said web back?front?end busy in configuration].

I then spent ages looking for “whats wrong”
Cheers
James