[mythtv-users] MythUtil interest?

[Anthony Giggins]

On 29 August 2016 at 11:09, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Before I spend the time authoring a wiki article for make
> things "official", I am going to ask if the following utilities
> seem to have any value for anyone other than myself.
>
> The initial work was just to gain familiarity with the
> Services API (and the idiosyncrasies).  However I have
> graduated to using them for my own purposes.
>
> Source of MythUtil utilities:
>    https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/MythUtil
>
> A few warnings:
>   * Some of the utilities can optionally update
>     the MythTV database via the services API.
>     Always insure you have a current backup
>     before allowing updates to be performed
>   * These utilities are only tested on 0.28
>   * The utilities that work with the HDHomeRun
>     devices only support the recent generation
>     devices (4th gen, or 3rd gen HDHR3-CC
>     (aka Prime)) with recent firmware.  You may
>     want/need to use "Detect Channels" to get
>     the current channel list for your HDHR for
>     accurate information.
>   * Before running any of the utilities, it is
>     recommended to run it with the --help option
>     to examine the command line options
>
> For the following examples, it is presumed that
> one is running on the MBE (which eliminates the
> need to specify the --backend), and that the [interesting]
> videosource-id is 1, and the HDHomeRun has the
> name myhdhr.local (and for the last, the xmltv config
> file is named CABLE for the xmltv config file).  btw,
> tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite is not yet in an official
> XMLTV release, but can be obtain via their cvs repo,
> or the original master can be found at:
>    https://github.com/garybuhrmaster/tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite
>
>
> The utilities (and a sample scenario).
>
>    MythUtil-Channel-videosource
>      - will display the existing videosources (one should
>        normally use mythtv-setup, but this was an initial
>        test/experiment)
>
>    MythUtil-Channel-HDHR-channelCheck --hdhr myhdhr.local
> --videosource-id 1
>      - compares the HDHR and MythTV channel list
>        This can indicate that the MythTV lineup channels do not
>        match what the HDHR thinks are the appropriate channels
>        that it can tune.  You may want to add/delete/update the
>        MythTV channel list (or not).
>
>    MythUtil-Channel-HDHR-visibilityCheck --hdhr myhdhr.local
> --videosource-id 1
>      - compares the differences between the MythTV and HDHR visibility.
>        Visibility (for CableCARD devices) will depend on your
>        subscription tier.  So your channel lineup may have 500+ channels,
>        but your subscription tier may only has 150 channels.  This utility
>        can automate (and maintain) the MythTV channel visibility to match
>        your tier (if you are using a HDHR).
>
>    MythUtil-Channel-HDHR-visibilityCheck --hdhr myhdhr.local
> --videosource-id 1 --update --channel 123 234
>      - Will update channel 123 and 234 visibility to be what the HDHR
> indicates
>
>    tv_grab_zz_sdjson_sqlite --get-lineup --quiet --config-file
> ~/.mythtv/CABLE.xmltv | MythUtil-Channel-XMLTV-getLineup
> --videosource-id 1
>      - Will take the output of the XMLTV schedules direct grabber
>        and compare with the MythTV database.  This is (sort of) a
>        prototype for some (maybe) future MythTV setup using the
>        --get-lineup capabilities for some grabbers (no scan for channels
>        would be required for xmltv sources that have the needed info
>        from the provider).
>
> There are numerous other options to check/compare/update depending
> on the utility (check the --help).
>
> I would be interested to know if any of these utilities seem to be
> useful to anyone else (other than me).  If you find real bugs, please
> open an issue on github (for tracking purposes).
>
> I tend to (semi-regularly) use the last example to update my MythTV
> channel list from my schedules direct lineup, and the next to last
> example (without a channel selection) to update the visibility based
> on my HDHR channel list (running both in reporting mode first, to
> see what they are going to do before letting them go and do it).
>
> At some point I will try to write up a couple of issues/limitations I
> encountered with using the services API and send them to the
> devs for consideration (and try to create patches if I can figure
> how to address the issue(s)).
>
> Thanks for any feedback.
>
> Gary
>

Might be worth renaming due to confusion with the official mythutil
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythutil

Cheers,

Anthony
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