MythTV Upnp & comm skipping

[superm1]

I think it would be great if there was UPNP support to detect MythTV backends as network sources. Selecting a recording should then pull the comm skip list like it does in mythfrontend.

This would make it an awesome alternative to mythfrontend for recorded TV shows.

[sfsmiley]

it already does. at least mine does when you browse network it finds myth av media server. no comm skip though. just flag comms and nothing to worry about.

[gregms]

it already does. at least mine does when you browse network it finds myth av media server. no comm skip though. just flag comms and nothing to worry about.


Sfsmiley, are you just talking about a smb share? My Mythfront/backend/Boxee are all on the same computer so are you just suggesting I tell it to monitor my recordings folder? I wouldn't think it would recognize the content that way due to the way Myth names them. And I wouldn't think this would currently work very well as you can't currently delete content, unless I'm mistaken on that...

[sfsmiley]

Hi,

no, what I meant was goto video> browse> network> and there should be an entry for "mythtv: MythTV AV Media Server" . you using .21 fixes?

you might have to try it twice, boxee upnp or myth upnp should refresh network sources if you do it again.

[gregms]

no, what I meant was goto video> browse> network> and there should be an entry for "mythtv: MythTV AV Media Server" . you using .21 fixes?


Yeah, I'm using 0.21.0+fixes18207
I know the AV Media Server works, because I get a popup notice on my Vista machine. I'll have to try it later with my other Boxee installs to see if it shows up on other machines around the house. But I definitely don't see it on my main Boxee system no matter how many times I refresh, humm...

Thanks for your help though sfsmiley

[killnine]

I second this. Boxee is installed on the same system as my back and frontend. Backend is setup on the right ip (not 127.), so should be serving upnp. No mythtv shows up in a browse of the network. Are you sure you didn't do something to be able to see a mythtv service in your browse lists? Perhaps you added a source manually?

[killnine]

My bad. The reason this did not immediately work for me was a mysql issue combined with a mythbackend issue. I had added --noupnp to mythbackend at startup and forgot that I had done so. I removed that. Then I needed to make sure the mysql was allowing remote logins if indeed that had anything to do with it. I edited my.cnf and made sure it was not binding to 127.0.0.1 specifically. I also made sure mythbackend was configured on the actual IP address and not just 127.0.0.1. I logged into mysql as root and made sure that access was permitted from remote and locally.
GRANT ALL ON `mythconverg`.* TO 'mythtv'@'%' identified by 'mythtv';
GRANT ALL ON `mythconverg`.* TO 'mythtv'@'localhost' identified by 'mythtv';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
tested by using mysql client from a remote machine:
mysql -u mythtv -h x.x.x.x -p mythconverg
Started boxee and went to videos/browse/network
It did not immediately show up. However, I do have a samba network, so that was listed. I clicked on the samba network, then immediately hit escape and now the mythtv AV server WAS in the list. When I clicked on it, it showed recordings/videos/music. From reading the forums livetv is supposed to be available somehow too, so this does not seem to do that. It just gives you the available media. I tried adding

<source>
<name>MythTV</name>
<path>myth://mythtv:mythtv/x.x.x.x/</path>
<private>false</private>
</source>

to the sources but it fails with could not retrieve data.

[yee379]

hi, i do not appear to be able to get the upnp mythtv thing working under boxee; i get the Network > mythtv entry; and i get the 'recodings, videos' and even the shows that have been recorded.

however, when i try to play it, boxee just 'spins' (ie that indeterminate spinner thing).

any ideas?

[cwharland]

hi, i do not appear to be able to get the upnp mythtv thing working under boxee; i get the Network > mythtv entry; and i get the 'recodings, videos' and even the shows that have been recorded.

however, when i try to play it, boxee just 'spins' (ie that indeterminate spinner thing).

any ideas?

Same thing here. I can see all of the content (music, videos, recordings) and I can even see previews of them (thumbnails) but when I select any of them I just get indefinite spinning with no console output.