[mythtv-users] HELP: HD died will need to delete all recordings

[Tom Dexter]

On 10/26/18, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/18, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> find_orphans.py automatically deletes and _allows_ re-record, but you
>> are correct that it will not create new rules to record the shows that
>> are deleted (nor will any other mechanism for deletion). Any existing
>> rules the cover the shows that get deleted will result in re-recording
>> of the episodes.  However rules that no longer exist (i.e. "this
>> showing" or "find and record once" or ... rules) will need to be created
>> again.  Generally, though, those one-off rules tend to be for
>> "opportunistic" recording of something less important, so probably
>> aren't too much of a concern.
>>
>> Mike
>
> Wow...totally confused. How exactly should I be getting that
> find_orphans.py script? I see it's not part of the mythtv distribution
> itself, and that link above doesn't have any sort of raw download. I
> attempted to copy and paste it into vi from that page (which really
> rubbed me the wrong way), which looked ok (and appeared to have the
> proper space indenting) but it fails miserably.
>
> Run as root I get this:
>
> ./find_orphans.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./find_orphans.py", line 221, in <module>
>     DB = MythDB()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/database.py", line
> 1264, in __init__
>     for tmpconfig in dbconfig.test(self.log):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/database.py", line 938, in
> test
>     for conn in XMLConnection.fromUPNP(5.0):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV/connections.py", line
> 607, in fromUPNP
>     ip, port = reLOC.match(res['location']).group(1,2)
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'
>
> If I attempt that as a non-root user it segfaults. Any suggestions are
> welcome.
>
> I was actually able to recover most of the recordings we care about
> and I wanted to use this to clean up the rest.
>
> Tom
>

Given how little I actually had to do here I just did this manually in
mythweb...but I'd still love to know what I was doing wrong there if I
ever need this.

Thanks!
Tom