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Hi Stephen!</p>
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<pre class="western"><font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Now the next thing to do is to check and see if the DroidSans.ttf you have found is actually a font file, or whether it is a link to somewhere else. So what does this command show:</font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>ll <i>/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/</i>*</b></span></font></font>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:~$
ll /usr/share/mythtv/fonts/*</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 45 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf ->
../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSans-Bold.ttf</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 44 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSansMono.ttf ->
../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansMono.ttf</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 40 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSans.ttf ->
../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSans.ttf</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 52 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
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../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-BoldItalic.ttf</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 46 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSerif-Bold.ttf ->
../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-Bold.ttf</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 48 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSerif-Italic.ttf
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../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-Italic.ttf</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 49 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/DroidSerif-Regular.ttf
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../../fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSerif-Regular.ttf</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 42 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeMono.ttf ->
../../fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeMono.ttf</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 46 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSansBold.ttf ->
../../fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 42 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/FreeSans.ttf ->
../../fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 36 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/Purisa.ttf ->
../../fonts/truetype/tlwg/Purisa.ttf</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root 73 May 1 01:02
/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/texgyrechorus-mediumitalic.otf
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../../texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyrechorus-mediumitalic.otf</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">-rw-r--r-- 1 root
root 39728 May 1 01:01
'/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont
Bold.ttf'</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">-rw-r--r-- 1 root
root 44788 May 1 01:01
'/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont
Italic.ttf'</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">-rw-r--r-- 1 root
root 42084 May 1 01:01
'/usr/share/mythtv/fonts/Tiresias Infofont.ttf'</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:~$
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">The first seven
are red on guess a charcoal gray. Both sides of
the arrow. (So according to my handy-dandy chart
“symlink to non-existant file”</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">The middle five
the left side is a light blue, right side white.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">(So symlink to
file?)</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">The last three
are white.</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">(So files?)</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">I added the lines
spaces to help separate; also noted the
directories and what might be a time stamp.</font></font></p>
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<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">If all the fonts files in that directory are real font files, not links, then this should get them installed as fonts:</span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>sudo su</b></span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype</b></span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>ln -s /usr/share/mythtv/fonts mythtv-fonts</b></span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>exit</b></span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">and now running this:</span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>fc-list | grep -i droid</b></span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">should show all the Droid* fonts.</span></font></font></pre>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:~$
sudo su</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">[sudo] password
for barry: </font></font> </p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">root@Backend-3:/home/barry#
cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">root@Backend-3:/usr/share/fonts/truetype#
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style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">root@Backend-3:/usr/share/fonts/truetype#
exit</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">exit</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:~$
fc-list | grep -i droid</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/droid/DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf:
Droid Sans Fallback:style=Regular</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:~$
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">So only the one?</font></font></p>
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<pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in"><font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">I tried swapping my config.xml file on my main MythTV box to the one I use to access my mother's MythTV box, and it all just worked, as it did on v29. So I am not sure why you are having trouble doing something similar.</span></font></font></pre>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
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a big error occurred. I try to follow instructions</font></font></p>
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<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">In your RPi log, I do not like the look of the "SRSL you shouldn't see this!!" errors I see there. I have never seen them before. A quick search of the source code suggests that you should only get that message if mythfrontend receives a message intended to be sent by mythbackend to itself or another backend. So maybe the RPi mythfrontend is connecting to the wrong port on BE3??? Given that error, it is not surprising that you also get "Failed to open socket, error was malformed_ann_query" and "Failed to open remote file"</span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">errors.</span></font></font></pre>
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<p><font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt"
size="2">Noted that “SRSL” error – whatever that
is. At that point when sending I had figured not
going off on my own exploring to find the answer
might be a good idea temporarily; will look for an
answer after posting to you. May be as simple as
the RPi needing to have a SSH open. (The “SSH” is
just something in a chart I remember on the Pi.)</font></font></p>
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<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">So exactly how are you running mythfrontend on the RPi? What is in the config.xml file? Is that RPi used for accessing other backends? If so, how do you get it to swap between the backends?</span></font></font></pre>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">That particular
RPi is a brand-new unit, using MythTV-Light, and
only looks only at BE-3. Where we do most of our
TV watching there is a computer configured to BE2
and a RPi configured to BE1. Switch HDMI source to
select between computer (BE2) and RPi (BE1).</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">The new RPi only
looks at BE3, or right now tries to, and is up
here in the Computer Room while I work on it.</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Computers and
RPi’s will be moved around, updated and
reconfigured when BE3 and its Frontends are
available. I will admit it’s confusing. BE1, BE2,
BE3 and their associated Frontends are all
separate systems.</font></font></p>
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<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">It would also be very useful to see the section of BE3's mythbackend.log file from when the RPi was trying to play a BE3 recording.</span></font></font></pre>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Start June 1
after 10:39:41</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">RPi already at
the “Watch Recordings” screen.</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Jun 1 10:54:38
Backend-3 mythbackend: mythbackend[1276]: I
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1780
(HandleAnnounce) MainServer: MainServer::ANN
Playback</font></font></p>
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Backend-3 mythbackend: mythbackend[1276]: I
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1785
(HandleAnnounce) MainServer: adding:
rpi(55d5c882dd40) as a client (events: 3)</font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Jun 1 10:54:38
Backend-3 mythbackend: mythbackend[1276]: E
ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1727
(HandleAnnounce) MainServer: Received malformed
ANN query</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Jun 1 10:54:38
Backend-3 mythbackend: mythbackend[1276]: I
MythSocketThread(66) mainserver.cpp:7980
(connectionClosed) Control sock(55d5c8836210)
disconnected</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Jun 1 10:54:38
Backend-3 mythbackend: mythbackend[1276]: I
MythSocketThread(64) mainserver.cpp:7928
(connectionClosed) Playback sock(55d5c882dd40)
'rpi' disconnected</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">Jun 1 10:54:41
Backend-3 mythbackend: mythbackend[1276]: N Expire
autoexpire.cpp:261 (CalcParams) AutoExpire:
CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 1.0 GB
w/freq: 15 min</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Sans Narrow, sans-serif"><font
style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">barry@Backend-3:~$
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">So seems whatever
question Ann is asking… <semi-joke></font></font></p>
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<pre class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.2in"><font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">When using mythexport/mythimport, you get your recordings with all their data in the recordings tables, so they show up as normal recordings. However, if your channel tables differ between the two systems, you will get either the wrong channel information displayed (if the chanid from BE2 matches a different channel in BE3), or you will get the channel information displayed as #xxxxx where xxxxx is the chanid for the channel on BE2. This does not cause any problems at all with playback of the files, as MythTV is very tolerant of little things like this, but just looks a bit ugly on screen. </span></font></font>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Maybe with “BE4”
I’ll try moving the entire database across but
because of the changes and work and some
recordings already in place I’m going to go with
the mythimport/mythexport option. Channel tables
will probably differ, more interested in the show
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">OK, sending this
up and see what I can find about Ann and her
friend SRSL.</font></font></p>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Thanks again!</font></font></p>
<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
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