June 23, 201511 yr All you MythTV haters. Now that wasn't so hard was it? I'm not a convert... It was in the name of the Science of Sparklyballs.
June 23, 201511 yr lol you guys crack me up. We're doing some serious work here... Well Sparklyballs is, the rest of us are heckling!
June 24, 201511 yr lol you guys crack me up. We're doing some serious work here... Well Sparklyballs is, the rest of us are heckling! fecking hecklers
June 24, 201511 yr Well, looks like i'm going to be moving the /Recordings mapping to /var/lib/mythtv because on a virgin install it just contains a number of empty directories. so i can just recreate them and assign the permissions and use it as a volume, also not sure about symlinks for mythweb, but by default they point to some of the subfolders of /var/lib/mythtv , probably have to remake the symlinks too. then that just leaves a start routine for the main backend app itself and setting permissions and ownership all round on the various apps.
June 24, 201511 yr sparkly...I don't think you need that mapping. The Myth backend has a bunch of empty Storage Groups and I think it creates a bunch of empty folder in /var/lib/mythtv. If I remember correctly, Mythbuntu mapped each Storage Group to one of those paths by default. It doesn't look like MythTV does that. Anyway, I mount each to a folder in a user share on my array as such: Default: /mnt/user/PVR/Recordings/ Banners: /mnt/user/PVR/Banners/ Screenshots: /mnt/user/PVR/Screenshots/ and so on. The only storage group I do not have mapped to a user share is LiveTV (/mnt/cache/Timeshift/) In the container template, I just map /mnt to /mnt and all of the above seems to work fine. I even removed you /Recordings mount point. John
June 24, 201511 yr sparkly...I don't think you need that mapping. The Myth backend has a bunch of empty Storage Groups and I think it creates a bunch of empty folder in /var/lib/mythtv. If I remember correctly, Mythbuntu mapped each Storage Group to one of those paths by default. It doesn't look like MythTV does that. Anyway, I mount each to a folder in a user share on my array as such: Default: /mnt/user/PVR/Recordings/ Banners: /mnt/user/PVR/Banners/ Screenshots: /mnt/user/PVR/Screenshots/ and so on. The only storage group I do not have mapped to a user share is LiveTV (/mnt/cache/Timeshift/) In the container template, I just map /mnt to /mnt and all of the above seems to work fine. I even removed you /Recordings mount point. John until i can find a way to get mythweb to pick up those changes, /var/lib/mythtv is the way to go. i'm certainly not recommending people pass through /mnt.
June 27, 201511 yr back on to this again today, running some builds to try and sort permissions to run as non-root. still having issues starting the backend itself, other than from a terminal command.
June 27, 201511 yr I've been running this for the better part of a week without issue. the process of "fixing it" is gonna break stuff till i can get it right. i've got a source now so i can run tests here.
June 27, 201511 yr As far as starting the backend... I just added /usr/bin/mythbackend to Startup Applications. Works well enough for now if I restart the container. Of course I still need to start it manually after I leave the Setup program but that shouldn't be too often. John
June 27, 201511 yr As far as starting the backend... I just added /usr/bin/mythbackend to Startup Applications. Works well enough for now if I restart the container. Of course I still need to start it manually after I leave the Setup program but that shouldn't be too often. John startup applications ?
June 27, 201511 yr As far as starting the backend... I just added /usr/bin/mythbackend to Startup Applications. Works well enough for now if I restart the container. Of course I still need to start it manually after I leave the Setup program but that shouldn't be too often. John startup applications ? from the RDP desktop: System --> Preferences --> Startup Applications
June 27, 201511 yr I've been running this for the better part of a week without issue. the process of "fixing it" is gonna break stuff till i can get it right. i've got a source now so i can run tests here. In mythbuntu anyway, most myth related services run under the user mythtv. Users have to be part of the mythtv group also I believe.
June 27, 201511 yr I've been running this for the better part of a week without issue. the process of "fixing it" is gonna break stuff till i can get it right. i've got a source now so i can run tests here. In mythbuntu anyway, most myth related services run under the user mythtv. Users have to be part of the mythtv group also I believe. i originally started out using mythtv user, wasn't making any headway.. switched to root to get things working.. now in the process of trying to get it running as mythtv.
June 27, 201511 yr well this could take a lot longer than expected, dockerhub is fackered AGAIN !!!!!!!!! i've put in loads of commits today trying to changover to user mythtv and it's using git commits from last week.
June 28, 201511 yr got it running as mythtv user now, and also it runs after exiting the setup program (have to enter password), so last piece is getting a startup sorted for the backend.
June 28, 201511 yr got it running as mythtv user now, and also it runs after exiting the setup program (have to enter password), so last piece is getting a startup sorted for the backend. That's good because I've added this thread to my MediaBuild post Don't worry, put an appropriate disclaimer in
June 28, 201511 yr got it running as mythtv user now, and also it runs after exiting the setup program (have to enter password), so last piece is getting a startup sorted for the backend. That's good because I've added this thread to my MediaBuild post Don't worry, put an appropriate disclaimer in who's riding who's coat-tails here ?
June 28, 201511 yr got it running as mythtv user now, and also it runs after exiting the setup program (have to enter password), so last piece is getting a startup sorted for the backend. That's good because I've added this thread to my MediaBuild post Don't worry, put an appropriate disclaimer in who's riding who's coat-tails here ? Rather thought I was giving you credit for all your amazing work, I knew you'd do it, hadn't even seen this thread, but such is my faith, admiration and man-love for you I added it to point people your way. THE PEOPLE LOVE YOU SPARKLYBALLS - GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT!! Oh, by the way, that modem I sent you, whilst packing the house I found the new plug BT sent me after the old one was recalled, will post it to you Monday, thought I'd sent you the new one, but turns out I sent the dodgy old one, don't think it's anything to worry about, didn't burn my pad down in all the years I was using it, but, bear it in mind if you start to feel a bit warm
June 28, 201511 yr got it running as mythtv user now, and also it runs after exiting the setup program (have to enter password), so last piece is getting a startup sorted for the backend. That's good because I've added this thread to my MediaBuild post Don't worry, put an appropriate disclaimer in who's riding who's coat-tails here ? Rather thought I was giving you credit for all your amazing work, I knew you'd do it, hadn't even seen this thread, but such is my faith, admiration and man-love for you I added it to point people your way. THE PEOPLE LOVE YOU SPARKLYBALLS - GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT!! Oh, by the way, that modem I sent you, whilst packing the house I found the new plug BT sent me after the old one was recalled, will post it to you Monday, thought I'd sent you the new one, but turns out I sent the dodgy old one, don't think it's anything to worry about, didn't burn my pad down in all the years I was using it, but, bear it in mind if you start to feel a bit warm i've been making toast on it...
June 28, 201511 yr got it running as mythtv user now, and also it runs after exiting the setup program (have to enter password), so last piece is getting a startup sorted for the backend. That's good because I've added this thread to my MediaBuild post Don't worry, put an appropriate disclaimer in who's riding who's coat-tails here ? Rather thought I was giving you credit for all your amazing work, I knew you'd do it, hadn't even seen this thread, but such is my faith, admiration and man-love for you I added it to point people your way. THE PEOPLE LOVE YOU SPARKLYBALLS - GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT!! Oh, by the way, that modem I sent you, whilst packing the house I found the new plug BT sent me after the old one was recalled, will post it to you Monday, thought I'd sent you the new one, but turns out I sent the dodgy old one, don't think it's anything to worry about, didn't burn my pad down in all the years I was using it, but, bear it in mind if you start to feel a bit warm i've been making toast on it... Hmmm, sure the cat used to rub his arse on that, might want to to rethink your toast making....
June 28, 201511 yr Latest version,, doesn't do that schema update thing anymore... i put an autostart file in the mate desktop environment so the backend (should) start automatically when the container does. I know what the issue is with the backend not restarting when you exit the setup program, but it needs a scripting guru to sort it out... i can't get any output on my kodi install, but it could be my setup as tvheadend is a real pig to get connected to as well. if anyone wants to test, i'm afraid it's a crash and burn if you have previous builds....
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