MythTV - attempts #3 and 4

3 -Metadata Lookup Changes March 2021 – Wiki page

(There is no ‘2’ – keeping numbers to match NZXT notes)

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https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Metadata_Lookup_Changes_March_2021

Metadata Lookup Changes March 2021

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Manual Installation for older versions

The source code has only been updated for fixes/31 and master.
If you are running version 30 or earlier, you can do a manual
install. Thanks to Hika van den Hoven for these instructions.
Note that this is not officially supported. Be prepared to back
it out if necessary.

Get the latest version of mythtv from github:

Make directory where to place it and go there     BJM: mkdir git
cd git

run:

sudo git clone https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv.git mythtv

If that does not work, first install git!

Next either install the pythonbindings from there into python3:
BJM: python3 –version ==> 3.6.9

go inside the downloaded data to:

...mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python    BJM: barry@M58:~$ pip
install python-dateutil

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is
not writeable

Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil in
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (2.6.1)

(substitute ... with the location you downloaded it to)

run:

sudo python3 ./setup.py install

BJM: Install seemed to complete OK so skip

to next section (jump to next yellow highlight)

install the following python modules if not yet there:

https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/

https://pypi.org/project/requests/

https://pypi.org/project/requests-cache/

https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/

https://pypi.org/project/future

by either downloading the sourcefiles from above links,
unpacking them and from the main directory within the unpacked
files run:

sudo python3 ./setup.py install

or by finding the appropriate modules for your distribution.

or update the apropriate bindingfiles in your python2.7 binding
directory

on my system:

/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MythTV

on others possibly:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV

or a variation of the above.

BJM: jumped to here

Go to that directory     BJM: assuming
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python

first backup the tmdb3 directory in there by renaming it to
tmdb3.bak: BJM cp instead?? Previous                   trials
whining of dire tmdb3 not present.

mv tmdb3 tmdb3.bak ==>   sudo cp -r tmdb3 tmdb3.bak (needs -r)

copy from the above downloaded git files the tmdb3 and tvmaze
directory into this MythTV directory:

sudo cp -rp ...mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/ .

sudo cp -rp ...mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/ .

(substitute ... with the location you downloaded mythtv into)

BJM:   sudo cp -rp
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/ .

sudo cp -rp $HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/ .

I’m at (dir level):
barry@M58:~/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python

BJM: Unclear on the source for “copy from the above downloaded
git files”

barry@M58:~$ find / -type d -iname tvmaze 2>/dev/null

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/tvmaze

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/tvmaze/tvmaze

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/build/lib/MythTV/tvmaze

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze <== this is
the ‘copy to’

barry@M58:~$ find / -type d -iname tmdb3 2>/dev/null

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/tmdb3

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/tmdb3/tmdb3

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/MythTV/tmdb3

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3.bak/tmdb3
<== this is the backup

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3 <==
this is the ‘copy to’

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/build/lib/MythTV/tmdb3

BJM: Guess at the ~/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python dir level

sudo cp -rp $HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/
.

sudo cp -rp $HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/ .

First cmd: no complaints

Second cmd: “ sudo cp -rp
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/ .

cp: '/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/' and
'./tvmaze' are the same file”

Skip this section:

install the following python modules if not yet there:

https://pypi.org/project/requests/

https://pypi.org/project/requests-cache/

https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/

https://pypi.org/project/future

by either downloading the sourcefiles from above links,
unpacking them and from the main directory within the unpacked
files run:

sudo python2 ./setup.py install

or by finding the appropriate modules for your distribution.

Restart here:

Go to the location of the graberfiles in:

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/

sudo cp -p
...mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py
.

sudo cp -p
...mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py
.

(substitute ... with the location you downloaded mythtv into)

so:

cd /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/

sudo cp -p
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py
.

sudo cp -p
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py
.

(No whinings.)

if you installed the python3 bindings, ensure the first line of
both files points to python3:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

BJM: So check what-where??

FIND ==> tvmaze.py

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py
<== cp cmd

FIND ==> tmdb3tv.py

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py
<== cp cmd

So head /home/barry…. tvmaze.py has python3

tmdb3tv.py has only ‘python’ so edited to python3.

Skip this section as using python3

if you updated the python2 bindings,ensure the first line of
both files points to python2:

#!/usr/bin/env python2

if you updated the python2 bindings, you also have to update
tmdb3.py in

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/  BJM: only ‘python’

go there and run:

sudo cp -p
...mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py .

(substitute ... with the location you downloaded mythtv into)

BJM:
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py

ls ==>File does exist

Only ‘python’ – changed to ‘python3’

I have not tested this tmdb3.py version with python2!

Tests:

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -t

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -M
Monk

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -l en -a US -M
Monk

barry@M58:~$ /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -t

Failed to import python lxml library.

Failed to import python-requests or python-request-cache
library.

Failed to import MythTV bindings. Check your `configure` output
to make sure installation was not disabled due to external
dependencies

Failed to import PyTVmaze library. This should have been
included with the python MythTV bindings.

barry@M58:~$ /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l
en -a US -M Monk

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
79, in main

from MythTV.tmdb3.lookup import timeouthandler

File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/__init__.py",
line 36, in <module>

from .utility import *

File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/utility/__init__.py",
line 1, in <module>

from .dt import datetime

File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/utility/dt.py",
line 14, in <module>

from future.utils import with_metaclass

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'future'

barry@M58:~$ /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -l
en -a US -M Monk

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py", line
553, in <module>

main()

File "/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py", line
510, in main

import requests_cache

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'requests_cache'

‘future’ and ‘requests_cache’ recognized from early skipped
section:

install the following python modules if not yet there:

https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/

https://pypi.org/project/requests/

https://pypi.org/project/requests-cache/

https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/

https://pypi.org/project/future

by either downloading the sourcefiles from above links,
unpacking them and from the main directory within the unpacked
files run:

sudo python3 ./setup.py install

https://pypi.org/project/mysqlclient/

You may need to install the Python 3 and MySQL development
headers and libraries like so:

$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev
build-essential # Debian / Ubuntu

Then you can install mysqlclient via pip now:

$ pip install mysqlclient

https://pypi.org/project/requests/

$ python -m pip install requests

barry@M58:~$ python -m pip install requests

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is
not writeable

Requirement already satisfied: requests in
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (2.18.4)

https://pypi.org/project/requests-cache/

pip install requests-cache

barry@M58:~$ pip install requests-cache

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is
not writeable

Collecting requests-cache

Downloading requests_cache-0.5.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (22 kB)

Requirement already satisfied: requests>=1.1.0 in
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from requests-cache) (2.18.4)

Installing collected packages: requests-cache

Successfully installed requests-cache-0.5.2

https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/

pip install python-dateutil

barry@M58:~$ pip install python-dateutil

Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is
not writeable

Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil in
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (2.6.1)

https://pypi.org/project/future

pip install future

So now cd to $HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python

then     sudo python3 ./setup.py install

Tests:

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -t

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -M
Monk

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -l en -a US -M
Monk

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -t  still failed
:(

- - - - (Hoping it would work and not go through everything
again) - - - -

Copy in the above Wiki to reinstall and retry

Manual Installation for older versions

<skip to after installation of missing python modules>

< At directory barry@M58:~/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python$ >

Go to that directory     BJM: assuming
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python

first backup the tmdb3 directory in there by renaming it to
tmdb3.bak: BJM cp instead?? Previous                   trials
whining of dire tmdb3 not present.

mv tmdb3 tmdb3.bak ==>   sudo cp -r tmdb3 tmdb3.bak (needs -r)

BJM: not doing the backup as would copy potential errors

copy from the above downloaded git files the tmdb3 and tvmaze
directory into this MythTV directory:

sudo cp -rp ...mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/ .

sudo cp -rp ...mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/ .

(substitute ... with the location you downloaded mythtv into)

BJM:   sudo cp -rp
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/ .

sudo cp -rp $HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/ .

I’m at (dir level):
barry@M58:~/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python

BJM: same error as before:

barry@M58:~/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python$ sudo cp -rp
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/ .

cp: '/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/bindings/python/tvmaze/' and
'./tvmaze' are the same file

Skip this section:

install the following python modules if not yet there:

https://pypi.org/project/requests/

https://pypi.org/project/requests-cache/

https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/

https://pypi.org/project/future

by either downloading the sourcefiles from above links,
unpacking them and from the main directory within the unpacked
files run:

sudo python2 ./setup.py install

or by finding the appropriate modules for your distribution.

Restart here:

Go to the location of the graberfiles in:

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/

sudo cp -p
...mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py
.

sudo cp -p
...mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py
.

(substitute ... with the location you downloaded mythtv into)

so:

cd /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/

sudo cp -p
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py
.

sudo cp -p
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py
.

(No whinings.)

if you installed the python3 bindings, ensure the first line of
both files points to python3:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

BJM: So check what-where??

FIND ==> tvmaze.py

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py  ==>python3

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py
<== cp cmd

==> python3 (just checking!)

FIND ==> tmdb3tv.py

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py  ==>python3

/home/barry/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py
<== cp cmd

==> python3

So head /home/barry…. tvmaze.py has python3

tmdb3tv.py has only ‘python’ so edited to python3.

Skip this section as using python3

Now checking again

if you updated the python2 bindings,ensure the first line of
both files points to python2:

#!/usr/bin/env python2

if you updated the python2 bindings, you also have to update
tmdb3.py in

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie/  BJM: only ‘python’

go there and run:

sudo cp -p
...mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py .

(substitute ... with the location you downloaded mythtv into)

BJM:
$HOME/git/mythtv/mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Movie/tmdb3.py
.

ls ==>File does exist

Only ‘python’ – changed to ‘python3’

BJM: has ‘python3’

I have not tested this tmdb3.py version with python2!

Tests:

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -t

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l en -a US -M
Monk

/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -l en -a US -M
Monk

barry@M58:/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Movie$
/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tvmaze.py -t

Failed to import python lxml library.

Failed to import MythTV bindings. Check your `configure` output
to make sure installation was not disabled due to external
dependencies

Failed to import PyTVmaze library. This should have been
included with the python MythTV bindings.

sudo shutdown -r now ==> reload stuff?? Nope. :(

<later> trying this test:

barry@M58:~$ /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/tmdb3tv.py -l
en -a US -M Monk

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
79, in main

from MythTV.tmdb3.lookup import timeouthandler

File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/__init__.py",
line 37, in <module>

from .connections import dbmodule

File
"/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/MythTV/connections.py",
line 17, in <module>

import lxml.etree as etree

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'lxml'

Well, guess a little better as not whining about missing python
stuff.