Tvheadend

agree...

the "unstable" repo isn`t as actual as it should. it seems, that the nightly biuld process failed, bcoz there is no actual package available (as i reported in ticket-system).

please fix it.

thx

Folks are working on updating the whole build/release system - work-in-progress - it's clear that the current stable/beta/unstable model doesn't reflect how it works now. It's likely to move to a stable/testing/master model, with 4.0 moving to testing (so more of a rolling test vs clear alpha/beta releases) and 4.1 sitting in master, but that's to be concluded based on how often fixes are to be backported from 4.1 to the 4.0 branch.

c128 m: no major config changes that I'm aware of. Take a good backup just in case (preserve permissions and file ownership when cp-ing) and you should be able to 'downgrade' cleanly. Remove the unstable repo, as you say, otherwise the next apt-get will just upgrade again because it sees unstable as a later version.

FWIW, I've gone up and down the 3.9.x tree many times, with very few problems.

Prof Yaffle wrote:

c128 m: no major config changes that I'm aware of. Take a good backup just in case (preserve permissions and file ownership when cp-ing) and you should be able to 'downgrade' cleanly. Remove the unstable repo, as you say, otherwise the next apt-get will just upgrade again because it sees unstable as a later version.

FWIW, I've gone up and down the 3.9.x tree many times, with very few problems.

Thanks Prof Yaffle - will give this a spin (hopefully today) and see how it goes .

thx 4 the info...

Just as a report back, it was (mostly) a success.

Everything seems to be running fine, overall CPU use has dropped dramatically and recordings are now playable again within Kodi.

However...something odd.

My Recordings list has been emptied - both within the tvheadend "Digital Video Recorder | Finished Recordings" view and within Kodi. It looks like they've all been shifted to be under "Digital Video Recorder | Failed Recordings" (that was previously empty). They all have the Status of "time missed", but were all successful "Finished Recordings" before the change.

Only thing I can see in the logs that looks (vaguely) relevant to the version migration is this:

May 26 19:14:42 tv tvheadend[9857]: config: backup: migrating config from 4.1.18~gec3ba93~utopic (running 4.0.1-5~ge776d34)
May 26 19:14:42 tv tvheadend[9857]: config: backup: running, output file /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/backup/4.1.18~gec3ba93~utopic.tar.bz2
May 26 19:14:42 tv tvheadend[9857]: spawn: Executing "/bin/tar" 
May 26 19:14:42 tv tvheadend[9857]: config: loaded

Also, the my upcoming recording timers were deleted (but still exist, so I guess re-created, and not an issue) e.g. :

May 26 19:14:48 tv tvheadend[9857]: dvr: delete entry 97aea402e7f5e04a481b98064707b185 "Have I Got News For You" on "BBC One HD" start time 1432929600, scheduled for recording by "Auto recording by: generic" (duplicate with 40acd7e3b8483fb8db949dec3dab3afc)
May 26 19:14:48 tv tvheadend[9857]: dvr: delete entry c4af5ee3e88a73244c05dd6bbd8fdbdd "Episodes" on "BBC Two HD" start time 1433192400, scheduled for recording by "Auto recording by: generic" (duplicate with f087622c0d8880477ded30f315476b1c)

Dunno if something like what's directly above happens often with an upgrade (or, downgrade, in my case) and I just haven't noticed.

Either way, the missing older recordings isn't an issue for me at all as they still physically exist and I can watch them directly in Kodi under "Videos" through a share (which had been my workaround for the 4.1 recordings not playing directly in Kodi anyway). New recordings seem to turn up fine. Unless, that is, there's a manual way to update these older recordings to be successful as Kodi/tvheadend sees them?

I've heard of other folks having the same issue, but not seen it myself - indeed, I play recordings over a share as you do, so wouldn't immediately notice anyway. All I can suggest is log it as a bug and hang on to any relevant log files - it shouldn't happen, and hasn't with 3.9.x version moves, but that doesn't mean that something's broken...

Will do - thanks for the help.

when will be build actual *.deb-packages...?

4.0 automatic builds are coming shortly - a few more days, please...

some news...?

rgds mad

seems like something is happening ...

--> https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/AptRepository

( I didn't test this yet!)

seems working...!

thx...