[mythtv-users] Problem with ttvdb.py

[Anthony Giggins]

On 9 February 2017 at 10:58, Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Anthony Giggins <
> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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"
>>
>>
>>
> I think I might be onto something and you just confirmed it.  It looks
> like the majority of episodes that I'm having issues with are double
> episodes, so I think that might be the problem.
>
> When I run the below command, it still doesn't find the
> episode....however, to be fair, tvdb lists it as two episodes, but the
> query it's submitting is only one.  Maybe if it returns two episodes from
> tvdb, it doesn't fill the episode number in?
>
> $ /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -r -l en -a US -N 136941
> <13%2069%2041> "Ben & Holly's Christmas"
> ====================
> Raw Series Data:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py", line 1575, in
> <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py", line 1394, in
> main
>     seriesfound=searchseries(t, opts, x)
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py", line 656, in
> searchseries
>     print t[ series_name ]
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/ttvdb/tvdb_api.py", line
> 830, in __getitem__
>     sid = self._nameToSid(key)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/ttvdb/tvdb_api.py", line
> 809, in _nameToSid
>     selected_series = self._getSeries( name )
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/ttvdb/tvdb_api.py", line
> 555, in _getSeries
>     raise tvdb_shownotfound("Show-name search returned zero results
> (cannot find show on TVDB)")
> MythTV.ttvdb.tvdb_exceptions.tvdb_shownotfound: Show-name search returned
> zero results (cannot find show on TVDB)
>
>  Thanks for the response!
>
>
> Yeah that's typical if there are two results no season/episode data is
returned. although it appears you get the same Traceback errors when using
the -r switch on working episodes ie.

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -l en -a US -N 136941 "Ben
and Holly's Christmas (1)"
Verses
/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb.py -r -l en -a US -N 136941
"Ben and Holly's Christmas (1)"

Cheers,

Anthony
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