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Artwork post problem

Added by Lisa White almost 3 years ago

Hey guys, I have a problem with artwork and posters disappearing within live tv. Make a long story short, my hard drive crashed and I did a new install using ubuntu bionics 20.04 and Tvheadend 4.3-1991~g3ed76138a a. I am using an hauppauge tuner and I subscribe to schedules direct. I had a lot of problems with ubuntu permissions. I could not get the icons to show up within any of the client apps and I kept getting the dreaded 401 error. In addition, I could not get timeshift to write to the hard drive. I narrowed some of my problems to an authentication. I solved most of these problems somehow, but I am having a problem with the artwork/poster disappearing. I am using tv_grab_az_sdjson_sqlite with the tv_meta_az_sd.py that was provided. The grabber is cron to run once a day and the information is loaded into tvheadend and works fine for about 6 to 8 hours but then the artwork-posters start to erase. The posters are not showing up within Tvheadend, Kodi or the Tvhclient app. Everything else appears to function correctly, including the recording features. If I manually run the grabber, the posters will reappear. I am guessing that something is being overwritten or permissions are being changed somehow. I

I did not have any of these problems as I stated with my old ubuntu 18.04 with the identical setup.

Can anyone help me out solving this problem?

Thanks a bunch!!
Lisa~~


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RE: Artwork post problem - Added by Lisa White almost 3 years ago

Hello everyone! Since this place has been lacking interest to responding to questions, I think I may have found the solution to my problem. After countless hours of trial and error, and studying the logs, I have narrowed the solution to the epg grabbers.

Tvheadend automatically assigns the channel to the epg xml by channel name association. In my case, I have 3 grabbers running and some of the xml's have the same channel name. Tvheadend was automatically linking "all" of the same channel name xml's to the assigned channel and a conflict was happening with schedules direct, which provides the poster artwork.

I redid the channel matching manually and linked all the schedule direct channels only and unchecked the others. Tvheadend gives the option within the dashboard to turn off automatic mapping. I turned off the automatic channel mapping for each channel keeping just the schedule direct xml mapped to the assigned channel.

I tested by running each grabber manually and the schedule direct was the only one that stayed to the assigned channel. This fix has been working for 72 hours now without any poster loss. I hope this information will help other if this problem arises.

Have a great and safe day everyone!!
~Lisa

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