[mythtv-users] Problem with ttvdb.py

[Anthony Giggins]

On 9 February 2017 at 08:19, Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'm missing some information about TV Season and Episode numbers in Myth
> and decided to do a bit of research into why.  It looks like you would
> run...
>
> $ mythmetadatalookup --refresh-all
>
> In order to fill in this information.  But there are still some recordings
> that do not fill the information in, but yet it exists in tvdb.  When
> exploring this a bit further, I get a lot of output from the command, but
> this one little snip is of interest.  It looks like it executes this:
>
> 2017-02-08 16:12:27.926741 I  Running Grabber: /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py
> -l en -a US -N 272472 Pups Save a Blimp; Pups Save a Chili Cook-Out
> 2017-02-08 16:12:28.325963 I  Running Grabber: /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py
> -l en -a US -C 272472
> 2017-02-08 16:12:28.576924 I  Result Found, Season 0 Episode 0
> 2017-02-08 16:12:28.576983 I  Returning Metadata Results: PAW Patrol 0 0
>
> If I look the information up in tvdb, it is definitely in there as "Paw
> Patrol" S04xE01 and S04xE02, but mythmetadatalookup says it returns 0.
>
> So then, I try to execute the ttvdb command...
>
> $ /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -r -i -N 272472 "Pups
> Save a Blimp"
>
> And the information it returns back is 'returned zero results'.  I thought
> it was a bit strange, so I substitute the series id (272472) with the
> series name, and I am starting to get some information back.  For example...
>
> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -r -i -N "Paw Patrol"
> "Pups Save a Blimp"
>
> This will then return information about the particular episode.
>
> Now "Paw Patrol" may be a bad example because the half hour(?) show has
> two episodes in it, so the recording will place a semi-colon to separate
> the two.  But, this is happening on more episodes than just this one.
>
> I think what the problem is that ttvdb searches on the tvdb series ID
> instead of the name.  I was wondering if anybody was having a similar
> experience or if this is a known issue...or something that I'm doing wrong.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
This is Correct, Mythtv and ttvdb have no concept of double episodes, the
usual response is this should be corrected at the Listing/EPG provider,
I had put some thought into writing a script to be run from a userjob to
split double episodes but I haven't progressed from there

although that being sent there is some error in the command your running as
this works for me

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -N 272472 "Pups
Save a Blimp"
Rather then what you ran
/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -r -i -N 272472 "Pups Save a
Blimp"

Cheers,

Anthony
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