[mythtv-users] Important: Changes to Metadata lookup in March 2021

[Peter Bennett]

On 2/23/21 4:34 AM, lists at arewethere.net wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 03:41:35PM -0500, Peter Bennett wrote:
> ...
>
>> If you have recording rules that have inetref specified as ttvdb.py_nnnnn
>> these must be changed or metadata lookups for future recordings will fail.
>> Appropriate values are as follows:
>>
>>   * tmdb3tv.py_nnnnn for lookup of TV series using themoviedb.org.
>>   * tvmaze.py_nnnnn for lookup of TV series using tvmaze.com.
>>   * tmdb3.py_nnnnn for lookup of movies using themoviedb.org.
>>
>> In each case, nnnnn is the inetref for the series or movie at the
>> appropriate site. These numbers are different for each site, so you cannot
>> just change the prefix.
>>
> To get a quick idea of how many rules are affected by this,
> is this a reasonable query to make?
>
> [mythconverg]> select title,inetref from record where inetref like 't%';
> +------------------+-----------------+
> | title            | inetref         |
> +------------------+-----------------+
> | PBS NewsHour     | ttvdb.py_81388  |
> | Backyard Science | ttvdb.py_259567 |
> +------------------+-----------------+
> 2 rows in set (0.001 sec)
>
> I ask because there are bunch of tables with 'inetref' columns -
> I am guessing the recording rules live in the 'record' table.
> Correct?
Correct.
> I'm not not going to be changing things with sql, but it seems
> a query like this might make fixing things quicker if only a
> few rules are affected.
>
> Just to repeat your explanation with a specific example, for the
> above I would have to change ttvdb.py_81388 to tmdb3tv.py_1655
> if I wanted to use the tmdb3tv source [1]. But if I find the rule,
> clear the inetref field and search for metadata, that should
> automatically select the right _nnnn suffix?
Correct. You can see it make the change on screen when you do that, then 
save the change.
> Thanks for getting out in front of this change.
> Vince
>
> [1] https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1655
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