[mythtv-users] Previous recordings have disappeared

[Darby Vicker]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 9:06 AM Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/29/19 10:48 PM, Darby Vicker wrote:
> ...
>
> >>
> >>       http://yourBackendIPorHostname:6544/Dvr/GetRecordedList
> >>       http://yourBackendIPorHostname:6544/Myth/GetHostName
> >>
>
> ...
>
> >
> > Progress!  The first URL returns a list of the recordings, but this is
> > at the top:
> >
> > This page contains the following errors:
> > error on line 1 at column 256491: Char 0x0 out of allowed range
> > Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
> >
> > What follows that is a very long list of unformatted text.  Here is
> > the last part of that:
>
> A single line is expected. I'd do this:
>
>    curl --output /tmp/recordinglist.out --silent yourBackendIPorHostname:6544/Dvr/GetRecordedList
>
> The /tmp/recordinglist.out will have the single line. Using an editor,
> find the 256491th character. Then look at the surrounding text to locate
> the offending recording. You should see keys like: <Title> and <StartTime>
> nearby. In vi, 25648l would position on it, if starting at the 1st character.
>
> Above if Roger's suggestion doesn't locate the error. It's also very possible
> that there's another problem after this one, and the column # would change. If
> you end up chasing too many faults, restoring from an old backup may be the
> solution.

It looks like this is the problem:

<ChannelName>KQD^@</ChannelName>

I looked at the http://yourBackendIPorHostname:6544/Dvr/wsdl and its
not immediately clear how to use that to delete a recording. If anyone
has some pointers to identifying and then deleting those recordings,
that would be helpful.