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

[James]

> On 25 Feb 2021, at 5:54 am, John Finlay via mythtv-users <mythtv-users at mythtv.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2/24/2021 10:08 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> 
>> On 2/23/21 5:58 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 6:17:00 PM, you wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 2/23/21 7:12 AM, Ian Evans wrote:
>>>>         Is this change being ported back to some older versions? Still on 29-fixes for now.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> You must be on an older version of Linux. I see that the v0.29
>>>> ppa has not been built since 2019, so I don't know if it is still    built. It probably has python 2.
>>>> The metadata lookup python modules are independent of the mythtv
>>>> version, and should probably have been a separate package.
>>>> It may be possible to drop the new modules into your installation
>>>> and compile the python, and it should work, but I don't have an      easy way of testing it.
>>>> Anybody interested in testing this?
>>>> Peter
>>> Hoi Peter,
>>> 
>>> I might. I run Gentoo with both python 2 and 3 and know my python. I
>>> still run 0.27.
>>> Where can I find the package? Is it possible to fool these older
>>> versions by renaming the new package to the old name or is the in-
>>> and/or output different?
>>> 
>>> Tot mails,
>>>    Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>> 
>>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>>> Het eeuwige dilemma
>>> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>>> 
>>> De lerende Mens
>>> 
>> Hi Hika
>> 
>> It should work if you copy the new scripts into your system. The new scripts are supposed to be compatible with both python2 and python3. They definitely work with python 3.
>> 
>> Check your python path by running
>> python3
>> import sys
>> sys.path
>> 
>> Find the correct path for dist-packages, using the same one that is used for your old version of mythtv.
>> 
>> Copy the files from the latest MythTV github, on both backend and frontend (using your correct dist-packages path):
>> 
>> github  mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/* -> /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/
>> 
>> github  mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/* -> /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/MythTV/tvmaze/
>> 
>> These use the /usr/share path:
>> 
>> github mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/
>> 
>> github mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/
>> 
>> Compile the new stuff in /usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/MythTV subdirectories to create the __pycache__ directory in each.
>> python3 -m py_compile *.py
>> 
>> Test it by running these
>> 
>> Display help page
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -h
>> 
>> Display series data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -M Monk
>> 
>> Display episode data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N 1695 "Mr. Monk and the Psychic"
>> 
>> Display episode data xml
>> /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -N Monk "Mr. Monk and the Psychic"
>> 
>> Run the same tests for tvmaze.py
>> 
>> Let me know if this works.
>> 
>> Note: You need to install them on all frontends and backend.
>> 
>> Peter
> 
> I'm running 0.29 on mythbuntu 16.04. All the mythtv python libs are in the python2.7 dist-packages so that's where I installed the tmdb3 and tvmaze files. It appears that tvmaze.py requires python 3 so I just tried testing tmdb3.py but it bombed trying to retrieve the episode data:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py", line 159, in <module>
>     sys.exit(main("television",'tmdb3tv.py'))
>   File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py", line 133, in main
>     xml = buildEpisode(args[0:2], opts)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/lookup.py", line 300, in buildEpisode
>     if query.isnumeric():
> AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'isnumeric'
> 
> which I guess indicates a python2 vs python3 mismatch.

I just installed John's osx build.
I see the grabber options for TV but not fot the movie grabber..
I've not understood is only the TV grabber affected for now.

Pardon the dumb question: As for as I can tell the TV grabber grabs cover art (which sometimes obscures the listings

http://tigger.ws/downloads/myth.png <http://tigger.ws/downloads/myth.png>

what else does it give?

James
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