[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase not updating since last week's boot

[Stephen Worthington]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:46:52 -0600, you wrote:

>Hi Bill!
>
>>>> Do this for ALL Video Sources that use Schedules Direct.
>>> Above is via mythtv-setup -- will have to do that after the soaps record -- and I don't watch but.....? (So will get back on that later this
>>> afternoon.)? Have checked one or two sources prior and the user name is correct, password is hidden but typed in manually and appears to be the
>>> same length.? There is an issue where a few entries from the bottom of that page the "pc:52722" blanks after the password updating.? The field
>>> has to do with SchedulesDirect and should be an auto-fill by them.
>> You can get the information from the Services API too, using a browser:
>>
>>       yourBackend:6544/Channel/GetVideoSourceList
>>
>> The password(s) will be in clear text.
>
>Very clear!!  Always nice to check to be sure the system is sending out 
>what I think it is -- years ago managed to get an unseen character in a 
>password.  I did see something a little odd (I blanked out my username 
>and password):
>
>This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated 
>with it. The document tree is shown below.
>
>-<VideoSourceList version="1.0" serializerVersion="1.1">
>   <AsOf>2017-11-22T22:02:29Z</AsOf>
>   <Version>0.28.20161120-1</Version>
>   <ProtoVer>88</ProtoVer>
>  -<VideoSources>
>    -<VideoSource>
>       <Id>1</Id>
>       <SourceName>Antenna</SourceName>
>       <Grabber>schedulesdirect1</Grabber>
>       <UserId>barryxxxxx</UserId>
>       <FreqTable>default</FreqTable>
>       <LineupId>PC:52722</LineupId>
>       <Password>xxxxxxxxxxxxx</Password>
>       <UseEIT>false</UseEIT>
>       <ConfigPath/> /*<== ??*/
>       <NITId>-1</NITId>
>     </VideoSource>
>   </VideoSources>
>  </VideoSourceList>
>
>Think I have the indentations correct -- copied in as one long line.  
>Shouldn't make any difference for what we want to verify.
>
>I added the "??":  that ConfigPath statement doesn't look right even to 
>this amateur!
>
>
>...I need to check out Mike's suggestions for the "com.ubuntu.Upstart 
>does not exist".

Shutting down mythbackend when running mythtv-setup is not necessary
if all you want to do is read the settings.  So if that is what I am
doing, I normally run mythtv-setup.real (the actual mythtv-setup
program on Ubuntu systems), and tell it not to shut down mythbackend.

If the UserId and Password above match what the Schedules Direct site
says are the correct values, then we need to delve deeper into the
Internet traffic to see what the problem is.  So I would recommend
installing Wireshark and running it while you run mythfilldatabase
manually, and looking at the traffic to the Schedules Direct site. You
should then be able to see the exact traffic and the error reply. When
installing Wireshark, it will ask if you want to allow non-root users
to use it, as this is a security risk.  Allowing any user to run
Wireshark allows them to see all the network traffic, which can
contain passwords and other sensitive information.  Since I am the
only person who uses my PCs, I allow all users to run Wireshark, but
you may not want that if your situation is different.