[mythtvnz] Fresh install 12.04 - tv_grab_nz-py not populating scheduler

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:14:58 +1200, you wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I installed the latest LTS Mythbuntu and have all my tuners working.
>> I have 2 remaining problems with the new install.
>>
>> 1. I have a second drive for recordings.It is set up as I did in the past
>> and is being seen
>> and used by mythtv.The drive has some recordings on it from prior to the
>> new install.
>> I believe that when I first installed this drive and copied old recordings
>> onto it,there was some scan function that would
>> populate the database.I seem to recall it was a menu option somewhere on
>> the frontend.
>>
>>
>A workaround - albeit not a very elegant one - is to move the
>old recording files  to a folder in the path where your 'videos' are stored
>and then get MythTV to scan and add them to the videos database. You'll
>need to figure out new file names well, but at least you can still keep
>the recording.
>
>What you might have also used before is the 'archive/restore from archive'
>options which I've used before to restore old recordings when I didn't want
>to keep the old database.
>
>In the end, backup/restore of the database is always the best thing to do...
>
>- David

If you just want to keep only the recordings parts of the database,
you can do this:

1) Back up your current database.
2) Restore the old database.
3) Install and run Mythexport.
4) With a web browser, go to http://127.0.0.1/mythexport
5) Click on the "On the Go" link.
6) At the top, set the "Choose a location" directory to a place where
you want to store the database for the recordings.  Preferably an
empty directory, and it must already exist.  The recordings only
database will be a stored there as a .sql text file.
7) Select all of the recordings on that page - a very tedious exercise
if you have quite a few.
8) Open a terminal and cd to the location you chose for the export.
9) Click on the Submit button on the bottom of the Mythexport web
page.
10) Go back to your terminal and do ls -al.  You will have to wait for
up to a minute for the Mythexport daemon to start the export process.
11) Once Mythexport starts, it will first export a *.sql file with all
the data for your recordings.  It will then start exporting all the
recording files.  Keep doing ls -al until you see it start to export
the first *.mpg file.
12) On the Mythexport web page, click on Job Queue and cancel the
running export job.
13) On the terminal, do rm *.mpg to remove any recording files that
got exported.
14) Close the Mythexport web page.
15) Restore your backed up database.
16) Install Mythimport.
17) Run Mythimport on the *.sql file that was created.
18) Make sure the actual *.mpg files for the recordings are in a
storage group directory.
19) Your recordings should now appear in your database just as though
they were recorded from that setup.

Note: This procedure only works between the same versions of MythTV -
so if the old database is a different version, you need to update to
the same version of MythTV before running Mythexport.