[mythtv-users] using find_orphans.py

[James Abernathy]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 10:20 PM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:51:06 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 4:22?PM Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hoi James,
> >>
> >> Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 10:06:08 PM, you wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 4:03?PM James Abernathy <
> jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 3:56?PM Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hoi James,
> >> >
> >> >  You do not have the python bindings installed
> >> >
> >> >  Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 9:42:36 PM, you wrote:
> >> >
> >>  >> I have a test system on Archlinux and I'm trying to run
> >>  >> find_orphans.py from the wiki
> >>  >> (https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Find_orphans.py) and I get an error
> >>  >> right off in line 3. I tried 2 ways to execute, same results.
> >> >
> >>  >> [jim at den-pc ~]$ ./find_orphans.py
> >>  >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>  >>  File "/home/jim/./find_orphans.py", line 3, in <module>
> >>  >>    from MythTV import MythDB, MythBE, Recorded, MythError
> >>  >> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'MythTV'
> >>  >> [jim at den-pc ~]$ python3 find_orphans.py
> >>  >> Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>  >>  File "/home/jim/find_orphans.py", line 3, in <module>
> >>  >>    from MythTV import MythDB, MythBE, Recorded, MythError
> >> >
> >>  >> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'MythTV'
> >> >
> >>  >> Not sure what I missed.  It works fine on my Ubuntu system.
> >> >
> >> >
> >>  >> Jim A
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >  Tot mails,
> >> >    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
> >> >
> >> >  "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> >> >  Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> >> >  Het eeuwige dilemma
> >> >  Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
> >> >
> >> >  De lerende Mens
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > Thanks, not sure what I missed but here is what those commands show:
> >>
> >>
> >> > [jim at den-pc ~]$ mythbackend --version|grep bindings_python
> >> > [jim at den-pc ~]$ sudo find / -name bindings | grep mythtv
> >> > [sudo] password for jim:
> >> >
> >>
> /home/.snapshots/21/snapshot/jim/.cache/yay/mythtv-git/src/mythtv/mythtv/bindings
> >> >
> >>
> /home/.snapshots/21/snapshot/jim/.cache/yay/mythtv-git/src/mythtv/platform/win32/msvc/external/taglib/bindings
> >> >
> >>
> /home/.snapshots/22/snapshot/jim/.cache/yay/mythtv-git/src/mythtv/mythtv/bindings
> >> >
> >>
> /home/.snapshots/22/snapshot/jim/.cache/yay/mythtv-git/src/mythtv/platform/win32/msvc/external/taglib/bindings
> >> > find: ‘/run/user/1000/doc’: Permission denied
> >> > /usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/24/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/25/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/26/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/27/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/28/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/29/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/30/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/31/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/32/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/33/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > /.snapshots/34/snapshot/usr/share/mythtv/bindings
> >> > [jim at den-pc ~]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > So If I'm missing the bindings, How do I install them in Arch?
> >>
> >>
> >> > Jim a
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> > I see in /usr/share/mythtv/bindings the following files.
> >>
> >> > MythBackend.php  MythBase.php  MythFrontend.php  MythTVChannel.php
> >> > MythTV.php  MythTVProgram.php  MythTVRecording.php
> >> MythTVStorageGroup.php
> >>
> >>
> >> > Jim A
> >>
> >> It's a python package, so in something like
> >> /usr/lib/python3/site-packages/ and you install it as such.
> >>
> >> It's to long ago to remember wherefrom you can install it. It also I
> >> think contains the media grabbers.
> >> Some time ago I did some testing on the new grabbers under python3
> >> with older versions of mythtv and I am almost sure there is something
> >> on the wiki about it.
> >>
> >> Tot mails,
> >>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
> >>
> >> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> >> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> >> Het eeuwige dilemma
> >> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
> >>
> >> De lerende Mens
> >>
> >
> >Not sure how relevant this is but I notice in the AUR for mythtv-git there
> >are a number of optional packages related to python bindings.
> >
> >I have all of them installed except "python-requests-cache". It failed
> >during build and is a known problem that is in the process of getting
> fixed.
> >
> >I did install python-requests-cache-git and it installed correctly but I'm
> >not sure if that would work the same way or not.
> >
> >JIm A
>
> On Ubuntu, the Python bindings are found here:
>
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/MythTV
>
> They are installed from the libmyth-python package.
>
>
Thanks, everyone.  I think my semi-annual tests of can a complete mythtv
system be installed on Arch has come up short once again. While the bulk of
it works, there is always something that is missing.  I'm back to playing
with something more MythTV friendly.

Jim A
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