[mythtv-commits] Ticket #10297: Database & Storeage Directory Housekeeper Setup Page

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#10297: Database & Storeage Directory Housekeeper Setup Page
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 Reporter:  harrycoin@…        |           Type:  Developer Task
   Status:  new                |       Priority:  minor
Milestone:  unknown            |      Component:  MythTV - General
  Version:  0.24.1             |       Severity:  medium
 Keywords:                     |  Ticket locked:  0
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 I have run into usability issues that cry out for a page in the mythtv-
 setup program that has an 'overall long-term housekeeping' function to
 include these specific abilities:

 1. List all backends and frontends the database knows about, with the
 ability to delete everything to do with retired systems.  Backends come
 and go, but their data is forever.  Put in a new frontend or backend that
 happens to have the same name as an old one long forgotten or upgrade
 (with different guts entirely) and it all goes horribly wrong.

 2. Offer the ability to delete all dtv scans, multiplex ids, channel ids
 and anything in the channel / video source database not actually
 specifically tied to currently listed video sources, input connections and
 configured video cards.

 3.  A button to automagically re-assign multiplex ids and channel id
 numbers so that there is no possible way new scans will create conflicts
 with existing data.  Note Mediacom at least in Moline, Ill has channel
 numbers reported by VCT including 1000, so the 'add the channel number to
 the source-id*1000' thing needs another look.

 4. A button to bulk purge all storage group .png and recreate them based
 on what's currently in the storage groups-- across backends.  A warning
 flag and delete option on video files with a file size too short to
 creditably contain the indicated viewing time.

 5. A button to list all files in any Myth controlled directory without
 known current connection in the database (to include video files whose
 filesize is unreasonable given the assumed video length).  A button to
 list all entries in the database pointing at files that don't exist/can't
 be accessed that only works if all current storage groups and other
 directories are accessible.


 6. Notice that Schedules Direct has QAM maps for cable dtv, however mythtv
 doesn't comprehend that format in the channel scanner.  Asking mythtv
 folks to embrace scte65scan (not part of any binary repository) and divine
 the user's local vct code in order to get something schedules direct can
 match to xml is, you know, asking a great deal given how many cable users
 are.  Requiring folk to create a video source, somehow learn its source id
 number, feed that to scte65scan's sql output... ah.... these aren't the
 'droids you're looking for.  The housekeeping page should include a way to
 score the results of a physical scan of what's actually on the cable,
 giving the user a drop down box with the contents of various VCT code
 possibilities with endorsements for those actually in the schedules direct
 QAM map and another for whether it is the schedules-direct xml codes.
 Maybe this is more properly a feature for the input connection setup page.

 7.  A button that scans all the on-screen help messages in mythtv and
 determines whether they have a chance in hell of actually being
 displayable in the space of the text box allowed by the current theme, and
 if not reducing the size of the font or in the alternative suggesting to
 the user they pick another theme.

 I hope folk understand this as being intended to be helpful, people who
 don't basically like all this alot don't bother to mention problems.

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