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style="font-style: normal">Hi
</span><span style="font-style: normal">Stephen</span><span
style="font-style: normal">!</span></p>
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<pre class="western">Mythweb as always been a separate thing - even from source code, you
have to get it separately. But if you installed the "mythtv"
metapackage that installs all the other MythTV packages automatically,
mythweb used to be installed. Maybe that has changed in v30 and you
have to manually install mythweb now, as mythweb is deprecated.</pre>
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<p>“Metapackage” sounds familiar so probably what I did
with the old 0.28 Backends here. As mythweb is a
past-tense I’ll not attempt to install; LIS
192.168.0.3:6544 looks to do the same functions, some
better. Will probably use Bill’s suggestion and place
the redirect in the hosts file to make access easier
later when I forget what the access was. Actually just
added that to my printout of what device is at what IP
address around here.</p>
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<pre class="western">A 5 GHz WiFi connection works fine when the frontend box has 802.11ac
WiFi, but I think an RPi only has 802.11n, which, depending on how
good the actual connection is, may not be fast enough. The problem
with 5 GHz is that it does not go through walls nearly as well as 2.4
GHz, so where you have the RPi in relation to the WiFi access point
matters. In your current (testing) location, it may not work well,
but it may be OK where you actually want to use it, if that is closer
to the AP or has fewer obstructions in between.</pre>
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<p>The RPi 3 B+ I’m using is supposed to have the ac
capability:</p>
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<p>Networking: Gigabit Ethernet (via USB channel),
2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi.</p>
<p><cite><a
href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiXv-bHntDiAhURCKwKHc6qCwkQFjACegQIDxAH&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.raspberrypi.org%2Fmagpi%2Fraspberry-pi-3bplus-specs-benchmarks%2F&usg=AOvVaw0gfYWKTNZr_AJej0YmUk1b">https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-3bplus-specs-benchmarks/</a></cite></p>
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<p>Well I must admit I had a bit of a panic: the WiFi
thingie has to be capable of supporting 802.11ac for
the RPi to use it! Initially what I found didn’t
state; website says it does (copied to my Manuals
directory!)</p>
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<p>Not sure why the issues with the 5 GHz connection
during testing – both transmitter and receiver in the
same room, a few feet from each other. Right now sort
of a low priority – the RPi was a convent way to test;
all of the Frontends but one are wired and desktop
units. (Not putting down the RPi, I love ‘em, just not
quite working right here – yet.)</p>
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<pre class="western">Closed captions "just work" for me using normal PC based frontends, so
I think you are probably right that it will be an RPi problem. Since
I do not have an RPi, I do not think I can help much with that.</pre>
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<p>This is the first time I’ve had issues with Closed
Captioning; seems more of a problem with OpenMax as
installed on my RPi. The “High Quality” and “Normal”
options displayed captions but video displayed
‘pulsed’ (stop, go, stop, go) [with or without
captioning]; oddly (to me!) audio was smooth (came
through properly).</p>
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<pre class="western">It would be easier if BE2 was upgraded to v30 also. Then you could
just use the trick of swapping the config.xml files to get the
frontends to talk to either BE2 or BE3 until you have finally watched
or deleted all the recordings on BE2. You might find that easier than
exporting all the recordings to BE3.</pre>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Sort of have done
that with the two old Backends (BE1, BE2, both
running 0.28). Two because of antenna issues: if a
‘bad recording’ on BE2 may have been recorded
acceptable on BE1. Part of the reasoning for a
good recording is possibly recorded on a 1600 vs.
2500, though not always. Physical antenna
placement is with ten feet of each other in the
Storage Area (I know!). Where we usually do our TV
watching has a desktop computer to BE2 and a RPi 3
(the non-5 GHz version) to BE1 – change HDMI
source on the TV was a lot easier than
reconfiguring the Frontend.</font></font></p>
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If you want to go ahead and export all the existing recordings from
BE2 to BE3, then you need to first decide how you are going to move
all the recording files to BE3. How many recordings are there? Do
you want to move the hard drive(s) with the recording files from BE2
to BE3? That would probably be the easiest if there are lots of
recordings. Otherwise, you would first need to ensure that BE3 has
enough space on its recording drives for all of BE2's recordings, plus
space for any new ones it will be making. </pre>
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<p><font face="Liberation Mono, monospace"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">BE3 (the new one
you’ve been helping me with) has a 4 TB HDD and
BE2 has a 3 TB at approximately 70% full but that
includes (I presume) the deleted recordings and
possibly some large log files – the percentage
reported doesn’t ‘add up’ as the other Backend
(BE1) reported closer to 70% free and the two BE’s
were essentially recording duplicates. Back the
BE2 preparation, would delete the deleted
(watched) files, etc., to trim down the job.</font></font></p>
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Then you would need to set
up network access (using SAMBA?) for BE2 to be able to write files to
BE3's recording drives. Or you could temporarily install each BE2
recording drive on BE3 to move the recording files. Or use an
external drive mount to do that. I will need to know how this is
going to happen in order to do a custom version of mythexport for you.
Also, does BE2 have multiple recording file locations (multiple
directories in its recording storage groups)? Does BE3 record to any
storage groups other than "Default"? Does BE3 have multiple recording
drives, or only one?</pre>
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<p>Wow! This stuff gets more and more complicated as we
get into the nitty-gritty!! I’m going to be getting
back to you on those details. </p>
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<p>Definitely a TIA on all that!</p>
<p>Barry </p>
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