pyTivo Discussion Forum

[bareyb]

I have PyTivoX working on my Macbook Pro (Intel) and it works well, but it sounds like it's been abandoned and probably won't work after I upgrade to Lion.

Question:

So I've decided to try and install pyTivo (sans X) and I'm already stuck. Here's where I'm at.

1. I downloaded the latest version of wcbrines fork
2. downloaded the latest version of FFmpeg (10.0) and stuck it in the folder
3. Changed the config file with the following: [Server]
port = 9032
ffmpeg = /Applications/pyTivo/ffmpeg
4. tried to find the web interface and got a blank page.

I've been on this all day, and quite frankly I'm at an impasse. Is anyone willing to walk me through this process? It might help others who are trying to do the same thing.

[wmcbrine]

I dunno, but I missed the part where you started it.

[bareyb]

[bareyb]

By the way, I downloaded your fork from here. Is this the right one?

[wmcbrine]

The web interface can't exist until the program is running.

If you got as far as you did above, then, while you have the terminal open, just do:

./pyTivo.py

or, if that doesn't work (I'd tell you why it might not, but let's keep this simple):

python pyTivo.py

Then it should be running, unless there's an error. You can use the web interface from that point on. But leave the terminal open. (You can minimize it if you like.)

[bareyb]

[wmcbrine]

[bareyb]

[bareyb]

Nope. Still no luck. Here's a screen shot. You tell me. I tried every combination I could think of. I think I managed to get to the right folder with the last one, but it's telling me there's no conf. file which as you can see from the screen shot below, there is.

[bareyb]

Here's the exact path (see bottom of window in screen shot) to the folder and the folder contents. Is everything in the folder that is supposed to be in there? It's telling me there's no conf. file. You can see it in the folder below... Any idea what's wrong now?

[bareyb]

I changed the Conf. file to reflect the same path as the Terminal used. Still says there's no Conf. File. What I need is the exact wording for the Conf. file. A screen shot from a Mac would be awesome.

Side note: This REALLY shouldn't be this hard and it shouldn't take this long. Once I understand it myself. I will create a decent step by step guide to installing this thing. I tried to do this back in 2008 and it was as much a disorganized mess back then as it is now.

If you guys can get me up and running I will certainly volunteer to create a guide. If not just to save others from all this running around in circles...

[wmcbrine]

Try typing what I actually said:

cd /Applications/pyTivo
./pyTivo.py

NOT "/Applications/pyTivo/pyTivo.py".

And please stop complaining about how hard this is. It isn't, at all. The problem is entirely that you aren't familiar with the command line. I told you up front that you needed to be.

[bareyb]

[wmcbrine]

Congratulations, you got pyTivo running. (Yes, only long enough to give an error message, but that counts.)

But I see now that you messed up your pyTivo.conf. You had a good one here. The path in the changed version is wrong, but more importantly, you took out the "[Server]" line. Why? You need that. In fact, it's all you really need. A minimal working pyTivo.conf is just that one line; everything else has defaults.

Also, I'd put your ffmpeg in /Applications/pyTivo/bin rather than /Applications/pyTivo. That way, you don't have to worry about specifying the path in pyTivo.conf.

[wmcbrine]

P.S. pyTivo doesn't really belong in /Applications at all -- that's for Mac app bundles. But let's not go into that right now.