pyTivo Discussion Forum

[lucasnz]

Update 12 Apr 2012: Fixed bug returning hashtable under some circumstances.

Update 21 Mar 2012: I've identified a number of bugs with the installer and fixed them. It should work much better now.

I've been working on a installation script for pyTivo for a while.

It does the following things;
* find python install (currently only looks in c:\ for python2*\python.exe) - anyone know I better way of identifying the python installation dir?
* identifies the latest version of my pyTivo branch and dvd plugin and downloads them
* downloads ffmpeg and tivodecode
* if the user has an existing install (in %program files%\pyTivo) it will ask you if you want to retain your old pyTivo.conf - I think this is ok since if you previously had pyTivo installed somewhere else it won't get overwritten
* install all downloaded files and set up pyTivo.conf for the user
* sets up pyTivo as a windows service
* a bunch of other bits and pieces

To install pyTivo double click pyTivo_install.cmd to launch the installer

To uninstall pyTivo double click pyTivo_uninstall.cmd

Note the installation script is written in PowerShell. I choose this scripting language because PowerShell is installed on Windows 7 machines by default and I can run a command to elevate the permissions (using User Account Control) so it will work for people that have UAC enabled.

It'd be cool if some poeple could give it a go and let me know if it works...

[philhu]

Ok, I have pyTivo for years, but am running as a 'newbie' to see what can go wrong. First off, if it does not find Python, it says so and fails. Maybe point user to where to get install kit? Or maybe download python and install it too?

What version python is needed these days, 2.6? 2.7 work?

Ok, it fails at the very end, with some red code, that goes away too fast to save it.

Then the service will not start with a 'file not found' error

[lucasnz]

Firstly, thanks for testing it. What OS are you running it on?

In terms of the python question, it looks for python.exe in c:\python2* folder. Yes, I need to update this so that if it doesn't find it, it prompts the user for the location.

Did you manage to get it past the can't find python screen? how did you do that?

It is supposed to stop and display any errors. Given that it's actually quiting the script, this implies that the code is actually not valid PowerShell code somewhere. Can you do the following so that I can see the error:
Start a command prompt with elevated permissions (start type cmd.exe, right click run as adminsitrator), in the command prompt type the following;
powershell -executionpolicy unrestricted
cd "\folder that contains install script"
.\pyTivo_install.ps1

Cheers,

Luke

[lucasnz]

I found several bugs in 0.1 of the installer script some I've released 0.2. This should be much more stable. I'm interested to get peoples feedback on this.

[b134]

Hello I tried your program, all things considered I am a noob to these programs (pytivo, python). I do not have any issues on doing code, just having issues getting these programs to get started I was able to download them ok and I am pretty sure I am using the correct versions (Python version 2.7.2, wmcbrine-pytivo-d763c8d). I extract them to c directory (C:\pytivo, and C:\python), but right after that it gets sketchy. I copy and paste pyTivo.conf.dist to desktop and rename as pytivo.conf, but when I try to edit parameters it opens with notepad. I see no way to edit the path for ffmpeg.exe as suggested in the windows installation posts. I then try to open that pytivo.conf with python it opens a command window for about 1 second then that window disappears.
So I was reading the forums on how to install in windows and came across your installer figured I would give it a go. I have windows 7 64bit. Here is a copy of the log file.
04/04/2012, 08:15:07
C:\Users\BERGER\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX21.016\pyTivo_install\pyTivoService.exe
04/04/2012, 08:15:07
C:\Users\BERGER\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX21.016\pyTivo_install\pyTivoService.ini
04/04/2012, 08:15:07
C:\Users\BERGER\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$EX21.016\pyTivo_install\pyTivoService.log
04/04/2012, 08:15:07
pyTivo
04/04/2012, 08:15:07
StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed, error code = 1063

[lucasnz]

Hi b134,

I don't understand where's you've got this log from. It doesn't look like log output from my windows installer. Is this the output from the old msi installer? My installer is not an msi. Where did you acquire the installer from?

Luke

[DjCalvin]

[lucasnz]

Thanks, yeah, I was already aware of this issue. There seems to be an issue returning a hash table under some circumstances. I'm working on fixing this. If you run the script again and choose not to overwrite the conf file then it should work. Hopefully v0.3 should fix this (hopefully out soon)...

Luke

[lucasnz]

@DjCalvin

The bug you reported should be resolved now.