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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/8/20 3:50 PM, Bob Long wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">James Abernathy wrote on 9/1/20 5:30
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<span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I have a mobile combo
mythtv FE/BE on a RPi4 in my RV. So it only have an internet
connection when I turn my phone into a hotspot and the
wireless AP/router bridge reestablishes a connection to the
hotspot. As a result when mythfilldatabase runs it usually
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In what way does it fail?<br>
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<p>I forget the exact error message, but it's the one you get if you
have no internet when it's supposed to run.</p>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">So what I
do now is:</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">1. Turn
on phone hotspot.</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">2. Open
terminal and ‘sudo su mythtv’ then ‘mythfilldatabase’</span></div>
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<p>I thought <span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">mythfilldatabase
was meant to run as the user, not as "sudo"? But maybe it's
different on an RPi?<br>
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It runs a user 'mythtv' when it running as a part of the backend. To
simulate that at the command line I need to switch users from 'pi'
to 'mythtv'. That's all that 'sudo su mythtv' does. <br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Also </span><span
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14px;" class="">mythfilldatabase can take quite a while to
run.<br>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">3. Turn
off phone hotspot.<br class="">
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<div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Anyone
have a more automated way of doing this or is this the
best I can hope for??</span></div>
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<p>Sorry, can't help with that bit.</p>
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