[mythtvnz] Is anyone still using MythTV v30 or below?

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sun May 9 12:15:34 BST 2021


I am working on the Python 3 version of mhegepgsnoop, and I have come
up with a small problem with the channel table.  In v31, the channel
table has a new column "deleted".  When the "deleted" value for a
channel is not NULL, it is a timestamp of when the channel was deleted
from your list of channels by a channel scan.  The channel remains in
the database, but marked as deleted, until there are no more
recordings in the recordings table that match that channel.  This
allows the recordings matching a deleted channel to be displayed
properly with their correct channel data, even after the channel is
long gone.

When mhegepgsnoop looks up the database to get the channels it is
trying to match to, it currently does not know about the "deleted"
column and will therefore try to match MHEG-5 EPG channel names to
channels that no longer exist.  If the name for a deleted channel
matches better than the name of an existing channel, it will mismatch
the EPG data to the deleted channel.  So what I would like to be able
to do is to get mhegepgsnoop to ignore all channels it reads from the
database which have a non-NULL "deleted" value.  But if there are
still people out there using mhegepgsnoop who have not yet upgraded to
MythTV v31 or above, I will need to do some extra code that checks to
see if the "deleted" column even exists, before checking its value.
This is likely a nasty hack type bit of code, which I would prefer to
avoid if it is not needed.

So is there anyone out there who is running mhegepgsnoop.py and has
yet to upgrade to v31 or later?



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