[mythtv-users] Has anybody a working copy of Mythrecipe?

[George Galt]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 05/22/2012 11:18 AM, George Galt wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Beppo wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But in my concept I want to save all my recipes at at a central place,
>>>>>> best
>>>>>> in a database to access the data on every computer in the home network
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> via browser over the internet by a mythweb module.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think you should look into Gourmet:
>>>>>
>>>>>  http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/
>>>>>
>>>>> If you really want to have a new MythRecipe plugin, it could be done
>>>>> as a simpler interface to Gourmet, rather than trying to implement
>>>>> everything and storing recipes in the mythconverg database as
>>>>> MythRecipe did.   Without a new plugin, simply launching Gourmet as an
>>>>> external app from the mythtv menu might get you most of what you want.
>>>>
>>>> MythRecipe was VERY frustrating. I really like the concept, but in the
>>>>
>>>> end, it just wasn't very polished.
>>>>
>>>> As Eric said, you are probably better off with a standard application
>>>> like Gourmet Recipe Manager.
>>>
>>> I'd second Steven's comments.  Because the Myth interface is geared
>>>
>>> towards a remote, it doesn't really work for recipes -- other than
>>> simply displaying them.  For that purpose, gourmet or krecipe work.  I
>>> also use Pepper Pot on my iPad, which is great in the kitchen because
>>> it can move around with you like a real cookbook.
>>
>>
>> And, FWIW, even though Gourmet Recipe Manager is based on SQLite, it uses
>> SQL Alchemy (which provides a capability of using other databases).  A
>> motivated individual could likely fix gourmet to allow use with MySQL (using
>> the --database-url option) relatively easily, then your EXEC in the MythTV
>> menu could run it against a (non-mythconverg, I'd highly recommend***)
>> database on the same server that hosts the MythTV mythconverg database, so
>> the data is available on any host.  Or, better, because it's not a MythTV
>> plugin, you'd be able to run it independently of MythTV--allowing tiled or
>> separate-screen usage while playing back recordings/video using MythTV (as I
>> mentioned before).
>>
>> See
>>
>> http://blog.henrygis.com/2011/02/running-gourmet-recipe-manager-side-by.html
>> http://blog.henrygis.com/2011/02/setting-up-gourmet-recipe-manager-part.html
>>
>> and I'm pretty sure the author would be pleased to receive patches that fix
>> MySQL support:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/grecipe-manager/forums/forum/371767/topic/3397765
>> (3rd post, by thomas_hinkle , the author/creator/admin of Gourmet)
>>
>> and, for the "marketing" reasons to choose gourmet:
>>
>> http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> I know that AnyMeal ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/anymeal/ ) uses MySQL,
>> already, but it seems to be more basic and may or may not be abandoned (if
>> nothing else, it's not very active--last release was Feb 2010, and the web
>> site is dead:  http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/anymeal-api/ ).  Not sure
>> about others, like krecipe and such...
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> *** There's no reason for Gourmet Recipe Manager to use MythTV's database to
>> store its data.  None of the data would be MythTV-specific, so it makes more
>> sense to create a Gourmet-specific database for just your recipes.  This
>> would make maintenance easier and more flexible, and would also allow
>> non-MythTV users to use MySQL for Gourmet storage, using the exact same
>> approach you use.
>
> I think I may need to seriously look into Gourmet now instead of my
> current LibreOffice recipe document template...
>
>
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FYI, I have been unable so far to locate the source tarball for the
mythrecipe rewrite.  So I don't think I'll be able to help out here.

George