[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase run manually

[Bob Long]

James Abernathy wrote on 9/1/20 5:30 am:
> I have a mobile combo mythtv FE/BE on a RPi4 in my RV.  So it only
> have an internet connection when I turn my phone into a hotspot and
> the wireless AP/router bridge reestablishes a connection to the
> hotspot. As a result when mythfilldatabase runs it usually doesn’t
> succeed.
In what way does it fail?
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> So  what I do now is:
> 1.  Turn on phone hotspot.
> 2.  Open terminal and ‘sudo su mythtv’ then ‘mythfilldatabase’

I thought mythfilldatabase was meant to run as the user, not as "sudo"?
But maybe it's different on an RPi?

Also mythfilldatabase can take quite a while to run.

> 3.  Turn off phone hotspot.
>
> Anyone have a more automated way of doing this or is this the best I
> can hope for??

Sorry, can't help with that bit.

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Bob Long

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