[mythtv-users] Frequent failures in attempting to download art from thetvdb

[Greg Oliver]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:

> On 25/04/2018 17:59, Greg Oliver wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:30 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net     On
>> 25/04/2018 09:22, Greg Oliver wrote:
>>         On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 3:07 AM, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net
>>              On 23/04/2018 19:00, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>
>>                  Hi,
>>                  I'm noticing more and more often now I cannot download
>> coverart,
>>                  banners etc from thetvdb. If I try to manually, a list of
>>                  possible banners is displayed with urls, but blank space
>> where
>>                  the image should be. In the logs I see "Tried to write
>> <url>,
>>                  but it appears to be an HTML redirect or corrupt file
>> (filesize
>>                  0). The urls work in a browser. There seems to be a
>> long-ago
>>                  fixed bug related to this with themoviedb.
>>
>>                  I'm using v0.28.2
>>
>>                  Is anyone else seeing this problem?
>>
>>              Can anyone using 0.28.2 report ttvdb artwork download
>> working for
>>              them? At least then I know to look somewhere outside mythtv.
>>
>>     Yeah, I know of that discussion: I was part of it. Back a few weeks,
>>     a few of us didn't have ttvdb.py working at all. Now it is mostly
>>     working. It's just the downloading of artwork that fails. The
>>     download failure was happening a lot before I upgraded to 0.28.2, in
>>     any case.
>>
>> ​Ahhh, sorry - I should have looked closer to the recipients of that
>> thread!  When you run the commands from the command line as in the other
>> thread, what does it say?​
>>
>
> Actually, there is a warning when I run ttvdb.py: I see
>
>  "InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding
> certificate verification is strongly advised. See:
> https://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/security.html"
>
> I still get what looks like correct metadata. I also notice that the
> banner urls returned within the xml, although http, redirect to https. I'm
> not sure how that would lead to Mythfrontend failing to download them, but
> I guess it could be connected.
>
> Cheers,
>         Paul.
>

​Well, it seems my system (Fedora 27 and mythtv 0.29.1 is not doing any
sort of metadata lookup at all (mythvideo fetch works).  Let me get mine
working and I'll see what I had to do..
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