[mythtv-users] Contemplating a major change

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 00:44:28 -0700, you wrote:

>
>On 4/5/2014 1:45 AM, Mark Perkins wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5 Apr 2014, at 5:14 pm, "Mike Carron" <jmcarron at starstream.net 
>> <mailto:jmcarron at starstream.net>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm planning a major upgrade of my system, from Mythbuntu 
>>> 12.04/fixes/0.25 to Mythbuntu 14.04/fixes/0.27. At the same time I'm 
>>> also planning to rearrange the entire file system so that I have a 
>>> relatively small (64gb) system ssd a 250gb ssd to mount /var and a 
>>> 4tb hardware RAID volume for /home where I plan to keep all of my 
>>> storage groups and some other stuff.
>>>
>>> My plan is to backup my database to an NAS, and copy all of my 
>>> storage group directories to the NAS, do a new install of Mythbuntu 
>>> 14.04, copy the storage group directories to /home, restore the 
>>> database, make sure the directories I set with mythsetup are correct, 
>>> and go. Have I missed something vital?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> mike
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> Don't forget any custom scripts that you might have. Also maybe grab 
>> any configuration files, there will be one for mythweb and possibly 
>> one for MySQL. LIRC?
>>
>> Also thinking off the top of my head - grab a copy of any custom 
>> theme(s) you might have.
>>
>> Take care with host names, may need to use mythconverg_backup.pl to 
>> change hostname(s) in database if you want to keep your previous settings.
>>
>> Going from 0.25 to 0.27 will you need to add the time zone table to 
>> the database? I don't recall exactly when that was added now but I 
>> suspect it will be necessary. Some settings may then need to be 
>> modified to allow for UTC time.
>>
>> No doubt there will be permissions to correct when you move the media 
>> files back in to the new storage group folders but that should be 
>> pretty straightforward.
>>
>> Are you reusing existing SSD's? Keeping the old system disks intact so 
>> you can swap them back in if you happen to have forgotten something 
>> can be a nice fallback.
>***
>The entire project may have been put on an indefinite hold. I have a 
>test system running 0.27, still on 12.04, and have come across a major 
>issue. I already knew that selling the wife on losing the 'record at any 
>time on this channel' option was not going to be easy. Discovering that 
>none of the filter options can be set makes it a deal breaker. I'm 
>testing with fixes/0.27 with Mythbuntu 28.7 theme and unfortunately for 
>me wife was watching when I selected Schedule Options, arrowed down to 
>Filters and then arrowed down to 'This Channel Only' and tried to set 
>it. I could not find a key on the keyboard that would set that option, 
>or any of the other options offered. It was made perfectly clear to me 
>that we will be using 0.25 for the foreseeable future.
>
>mike

The Space bar selects and deselects those options when editing a rule.

But the usual thing to do to create a new "This Channel Only" rule is
to go to the program in the guide and hit OK (on the remote) or Enter
(on the keyboard).  Then you get a special menu that allows you to set
up the different types of rules.  That menu is a set of shortcuts to
the creation of the various rule types that were available previously
and was created after user requests for an easier way of doing it.