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

[Jay Foster]

On 2/27/21 4:27 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
> On 2/27/21 4:11 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>> On 2/27/21 1:37 PM, John Finlay via mythtv-users wrote:
>>> On 2/27/2021 1:18 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>>> On 2/26/21 6:18 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/25/21 4:22 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>>>> I have tested the integration with mythtv and that works. Even beter
>>>>>> than I had expected!
>>>>>> I thought it possible that mythmetadatalookup would simply use the
>>>>>> script name in the inetref, but I thought first to test what would
>>>>>> happen if I renamed tvmaze.py to ttvdb.py and it worked. So good that
>>>>>> the inetref was after the hit changed to reflect tvmaze.py.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> However, if you do not copy either tvmaze.py or tmdb3tv.py to 
>>>>>> ttvdb.py
>>>>>> searches won't work, it will always come up with a tmdb3.py 
>>>>>> reference.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So choose which of the two you want and copy (or simlink) that one to
>>>>>> ttvdb.py.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Hika
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you explain this. I don't understand.
>>>>>
>>>>> All you need to do is go into mythfrontend -> setup -> Artwork and 
>>>>> Data Sources -> Television Metadata Source
>>>>>
>>>>> Change there to whichever script you want and it will use that 
>>>>> script for shows that do not have the inetref filled in.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you link one of the other script names to ttvdb.py then those 
>>>>> recording rules and recorded shows that have ttvdb.py_nnnnn in the 
>>>>> inetref will lookup the wrong show because the nnnnn is different 
>>>>> for each of the sources.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe this works differently in 0.27. Does 0.27 have the Artwork 
>>>>> and Data Sources entry?
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> This is not working for me with 0.28.  I go to mythfrontend -> setup 
>>>> -> Artwork and Data Source -> Television, but there is only one 
>>>> choice there (TheTVDB.com).  This is the name when using the 
>>>> previous tvdb.py script.  Is it also the correct name for the new 
>>>> tvdb3tv.py script? And why do I not see tvmaze as a choice? I tried 
>>>> restarting the backend and frontend, but makes no difference.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you copy tmdb3tv.py to the 
>>> "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television" driectory? On 0.29 the mythtv 
>>> frontend seems to scan the contents of the directory to populate the 
>>> Artwork and Data Sources choices.
>>>
>>> John
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>>
>> Yes I have.
>> jay at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata$ ls -l Television/
>> total 188
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 jay  jay    5555 Feb 26 11:25 tmdb3tv.py
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 133392 Aug 26  2018 ttvdb.py
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    248 Jan 26  2018 tvdb_test.conf
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 jay  jay   21512 Feb 27 12:59 tvmaze.py
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 jay  jay   17220 Feb 26 11:25 tvmaze_tests.txt
>> jay at mythbox:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata$
>>
>>  From the frontend, when I go to Artwork and Data Sources, I see a 
>> brief popup stating that MythTV is scanning sources, but the 
>> Television selection box has only one choice filled in (the existing 
>> ttvdb.py).
>> Jay
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> When I compare the previous tmdb3 directory with the new tmdb3 directory 
> (in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV), I notice that the new 
> tvdb3 directory is missing the lookup.py script.  Is that needed?  Where 
> do I get it for the new version?
> Jay
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Disregard the post about the missing lookup.py.  I had the previous and 
new directories reversed.
Jay