[mythtv-users] Gentoo / Jamu?

Brent Bolin brent.bolin at gmail.com
Sun Dec 20 22:38:47 UTC 2009


On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Doug Vaughan <r.d.vaughan at rogers.com>wrote:

> Brent,
>   When any Jamu options include -M then Jamu will only use the backend's
> MythDB directory settings. The jamu.conf directories are ignored. So if your
> BE has its directories properly set and accessible there should not be any
> directory related errors.
>
> Jamu only runs on a backend machine as it needs direct access to the video
> and image directories.
>
>   People are not always aware that all directory settings in the MythDB are
> per hostname. This means that if you are NOT using storage groups Jamu looks
> for frontend video and graphics directories associated with your backend's
> hostname. If you are not using storage groups and set a separate frontend's
> directory settings it means nothing to Jamu as the hostname will be
> different than the separate backend.
>
>   If this is the reason that Jamu is not finding video and/or graphics
> directories then you need to add the directories to your backend preferable
> by running a FE on the BE (just for adding the directory settings) or by
> adding the records to the MythDB directly. Of course if you pick the direct
> to DB method please backup your database first. If you can possible avoid to
> not use the direct to db method. A FE takes very little disk space.
>
>
> Doug
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Thanks for your reply.

I configured mythvideo on the backend/frontend and that installed the
jamu.py files and examples.

/etc/cron.daily/mythvideo

Ranu mythtv -c "/usr/bin/python /usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/jamu.py
-M >> '/var/log/mythtv/jamu.log'" manually

Everything appears to be in order.

Currently using all the Mythbuntu default directories with symlinks to other
large directories/filesystems.  Believe this is what broke if before.

Even when I did this before I configured the backend storage to point to
these directories.

Example:

/disk1/videos

Mythweb also indicated it knew about the directories.  Makes me wonder why
it broke.

Is jamu.py pulling configuration data directly from the DB or is it looking
for configuration information from somewhere else?

Example:
config.xml

Could see NO info set in that file.

Here is the output of cron script -

Mythtv video database maintenance start: 2009-12-20 16:13

Mythtv video database maintenance ends at  : 2009-12-20 16:14

------------------Statistics---------------
Number of video files processed .....(   26)
Number of Fanart graphics downloaded (    0)
Number of Poster graphics downloaded (    1)
Number of Banner graphics downloaded (    0)
Number of 2nd source graphics downld (    0)
Number of metadata downloads.........(   26)
Number of 2nd source metadata found .(    0)
Number of symbolic links created.....(    0)
Number of Myth database updates......(   26)
Number of undersized posters ........(    0)

--------------Updated Video Files----------
my.cousin.vinny
the.wedding.date
the.family.man
deck.the.halls
must.love.dogs
meet.the.fockers
christmas.with.the.kranks
ps.i.love.you
hitch
casino.royale
star.trek.xi.dom
christmas.vacation
proposal
horton.hears.a.who
rumor.has.it
when.harry.met.sally
mr.deeds
goodwill
bruce.almighty
surviving.christmas
how.the.grinch.stole.christmas
pirates.of.the.caribbean
over.the.hedge
"/var/log/mythtv/jamu.log" 130 lines, 3121 characters
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