Get banners of english season, if asked lang has none.

[Vollstrecker]

Fixes: 13424

I was a bit annoyed by this one for some time. This patch lets ttvdb.py just generate a second request with lang set to english and merge the missing stuff into original output.

I tested with a newly added season aswell as with seasons already missing the posters.

As I had no experience with python 2 days ago, it's maybe not the most beautiful solution, but a working one.

[rcrdnalor]

Trac ticket https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13424 was closed as fixed upon the author of this ticket.
Could you please re-test ?

[Vollstrecker]

Banner and Fanart works, Covers not.

[rcrdnalor]

Please check pull request #377 for a successor of the ttvdb api 3.x .

[Vollstrecker]

I tried to check this out but always get High Level version mismatch v31-Pre-4650-h59... against 32.20200101-1.

[rcrdnalor]

In order to test this branch on the command line, you need to

• checkout it
• copy the 'mythtv/bindings/python' folder to a folder in a sub-folder of your $HOME
• copy 'mythtv/programs/scripts/metadata/Television/*' to the same folder
• create relative symlinks inside the 'MythTV' folder by
  • ln -s ../tvmaze
  • ln -s ../ttvdbv4
  • ln -s ../ttvdb
  • ln -s ../tmdb3/tmdb3
• run './ttvbv4.py --test'
  and check if everything is in place.

In case you are using the 'fixes/31' or below installation,
you need to change the file 'MythTV/static.py' and adapt the
SCHEMA_VERSION to the schema used on your branch.

[Vollstrecker]

Sorry for the late reply, I still don't get it. I copied the 2 folders to ~/mm, but I don't have any MythTV folder either in ~/mm nor in ~ at all. And for the --test run, how can I see if the data I was missing for my videos get downloaded with these tests?

[rcrdnalor]

The API v3 from TheTVDB is marked as deprecated.
The successor of 'ttvdb.py' named 'ttvdb4.py' is now available on the fixes/31 branch of MythTV.
If you want to activate it, read the commit message of a7826be

Feedback is welcome

[Vollstrecker]

Feedback: Before adding a new season to check the banner, I added remaining episodes of the last one to get only the new season in the test. Problem: In german Arrow S01E02 and S07E17 have the exact same title, console shows:

2022-01-20 10:40:26.267621 I Manual Metadata Lookup: Selected Item: Type: Video : Subtype: Television : InetRef: ttvdb4.py_257655
2022-01-20 10:40:28.168362 I Running Grabber: /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb4.py -l de -a DE -N 257655 Das Vermächtnis
2022-01-20 10:40:29.422692 I Result Found, Season 1 Episode 2
2022-01-20 10:40:29.423128 I Result Found, Season 7 Episode 17
2022-01-20 10:40:29.424295 I Running Grabber: /usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb4.py -l de -a DE -D 257655
2022-01-20 10:40:29.571315 I Returning Metadata Results: Arrow 1 2

The main window shows me to select between Arrow (2012) and Arrow (2012) which is not really a usefull help for a decision, and no matter what I choose, the 6 lines above just repeat.

Screenshot

[Vollstrecker]

With the arclight theme, at least the covers are shown, so I guess all needed information is there. Short test on cmd-line
/usr/share/mythtv/metadata/Television/ttvdb4.py -l de -a DE -D 257655 07 17
gives the right data. Maybe this would be a better way of calling the script.

[Vollstrecker]

Closing as problem is solved