pyTivo Discussion Forum

[TreborPugly]

I've tried a couple of times to update to a more recent version, and each time I've had problems, and just reverted to what was working, something from early December I think, with the patch that Kevin posted for fixing ticket 67.

I tried again today, using a snapshot from wmcbrine, which is supposed to be a merge of the master and sub-folders branches, with the latest and greatest of everything else I believe:

wmcbrine-7a95873d1ae5488b8c059dbebe10d25ab4500ccc.tar.gz (Who comes up with these filenames? )

The behavior I'm seeing is that the first folder I went into sort of worked - it used metadata for two videos in the folder, and didn't list anything else at all for two other videos in that folder. Now whenever I go into any folder, it tells me it is empty.

Config file is:

[billdog79]

Try this>

First, I will assume that you have groups enabled on the Tivo itself. Simply go to the NPL and enter any group folder that the tivo has automatically grouped. For ex. if you have 2 episodes of family guy that you recorded from cable and they were grouped automatically, simply enter that folder, come back out and then try to browse your pyTivo folders. I have to do this occasionally to keep things running smooth. Its almost like it clears some log inside the Tivo or something. Hope this helps.

[wmcbrine]

[TreborPugly]

Is there a way to test out folder listings without being around my Tivo? Ie, can I use my web browser to do things beyond:

http://localhost:9032/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer

And see anything useful?

If I try to do: http://localhost:9032/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=Video

I just get a blank page, and my pyTivo process gives out errors like this:

[TreborPugly]

Still seriously messed up - Tivo crashed three times on me tonight, just trying to look at listings. I'm using the b1ea... one, with the config file I already posted.

First crash happened after backing out of a sub folder. Second crash happened when scrolling down a list of shows in a sub folder. It was about to page down - Tivo started showing me the contents of the top level Video directory before the crash.

pyTivo didn't report any errors.

I just tried a completely fresh install of the b1ea snapshot, in it's own folder, but with the same config file, and got a crash when exiting the description of a show.

I then tried the config file changed slightly to the way I used to have it ( below) - Auto sub shares is on for my local share, and I didn't have the line about the hack. (No line before meant it would be on anyway - I thought the default behavior was changed, which is why I changed the line). Browsing through the auto sub shares works without crashes. But browsing sub folders seems to be operating without the hack - it has the problem of all subfolders looking like the first sub folder you look at.

So my guess is that the merge with the sub-folders branch has not worked. I'd use the auto-share version technique and forget about sub-folders, but one of my shares is on a NAS drive, and it is a bit slow, and it breaks pyTivo somehow if I do autosubshares for it. If I browse it with the working subfolders version, it is quite slow, but doable if I'm patient.

[geranimo1]

I'm using it on Windows. Subfolders work, but I can't get more than one page. When I page down, it bounces back up a level.

[TreborPugly]

[philhu]

Don't forget, with subfolders code, you need to wait 2 seconds between file commands in npl, or the TIVO will reboot.

That is a know restriction when using the subfolders kludges.

[wmcbrine]

I believe I've fixed the problem. Sorry for the delay.

However, repo.or.cz is not responding right now. I'll post the changes as soon as I'm able... I'd attach an updated version here, but that's not working anymore either.

[wmcbrine]

OK, it's up now.

[TreborPugly]

okay - we're in business! Thanks.

[TreborPugly]