[mythtv-users] mythfilldatabase run manually

Jim Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 21:17:24 UTC 2020


On 1/8/20 3:50 PM, Bob Long wrote:
> 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?

I forget the exact error message, but it's the one you get if you have 
no internet when it's supposed to run.

>>
>> 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?
>
It runs a user 'mythtv' when it running as a part of the backend. To 
simulate that at the command line I need to switch users from 'pi' to 
'mythtv'.  That's all that 'sudo su mythtv' does.
>
> 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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