[mythtvnz] Finally got tv_grab_nz-py script working

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 5:27 PM, tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On 12/08/2012 4:40 p.m., Curtis Walker wrote:
>>
>> Turned out that my problem related to which user was running
>> mythbackend, and therefore where the backend goes looking for the
>> config files. In Arch Linux at least, the default mythbackend daemon
>> is set to run as user 'root'. To fix, you have to set
>> "MBE_USER='username'" in /etc/conf.d/mythbackend, where 'username' is
>> where you've got the tv_grab_nz-py generated config file (by running
>> "tv_grab_nz-py --configure --config-file ~/.mythtv/<video sources
>> name>.xmltv").
>>
>> For example, for the user 'robert', with the Video Source name in
>> mythtv-setup as 'FreeviewHD', you'd have "MBE_USER='robert'" (without
>> double quotes) in /etc/conf.d/mythbackend. The generated config file
>> would be: /home/robert/.mythtv/FreeviewHD.xmltv.
>
>
> Does /home/root/.mythtv/FreeviewHD.xmltv exist or in some alternative
> equivalent?  It might not, if I recall correctly Mythbuntu sort of gets over
> it by using the user "mythtv", more recent versions may behave better as
> plder versions also needed frigging in the rigging...
>
> Alternatively you may be able to find the original version of
> "FreeviewHD.xmltv" somewhere else?

running (as the user who runs backend)

tv_grab_nz-py --configure --config-file=~/.mythtv/FreeviewHD.xmltv

will put it in the right place. Also configuring it from mythtv-setup
should do the same.

I think it is the "right thing" to run the backend as a a non root user.

mythbuntu runs backend as user mythtv, frontend and user you set up on install.

linhes runs backend and frontend as user mythtv. It also uses mythtv
as the mysql password, which makes debugging a lot easier than
ubuntu's insistence on generating a random password and then hiding it
from everyone!