TivoWebPlus 2.1 Testing and Development

[CHRONOMASTER]

I have been getting the errors below when trying to backup/restore Season Passes in TWP and I have tried almost everything I can think of to fix this: Reboot, Fresh Install of TWP 2.0.0, Deleting the referenced Season Pass, Clear Thumb & program info, Upgrade TWP to 2.1.b3 and just for the heck of it I remounted "/" and left it in Read-Write but I'm still having problems backing-up and restoring Season Passes. I will help you in anyway I can.

Tivo S/W: 6.2a-01-2-351
TivoWebPlus: v2.0.0-071214 then v2.1.b3-090121 (Fresh Install of both)

-------INTERNAL SERVER ERROR------
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action:backup_create_write, path:, env:fname /var/TWP/backups/settings submit Create, code:'NONE'
wrong # args: should be "set varName ?newValue?"
while compiling
"set arr({ASER-Shin Chan|}) 1975714"
(compiling body of proc "perform_load_temporary_series", line 3)
invoked from: "perform_load_temporary_series temporary_series_by_tmsid"
(procedure "load_temporary_series" line 7)
invoked from: "load_temporary_series"
(procedure "take_snapshot_sp" line 24)
invoked from: "take_snapshot_sp 1 1"
(procedure "take_snapshot_for_backup" line 4)
invoked from: "take_snapshot_for_backup"
(procedure "create_backup" line 15)
invoked from: "create_backup $chan $fname"
(procedure "MOD::action_backup_create_write" line 9)
invoked from: "$cmd $chan $path $env"
--cut here--


-------INTERNAL SERVER ERROR------
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action:backup_restore_read, path:, env:fname /var/TWP/backups/settings9122008 submit Load, code:'NONE'
wrong # args: should be "set varName ?newValue?"
while compiling
"set arr({ASER-Shin Chan|}) 1975714"
(compiling body of proc "perform_load_temporary_series", line 3)
invoked from: "perform_load_temporary_series temporary_series_by_tmsid"
(procedure "load_temporary_series" line 7)
invoked from: "load_temporary_series"
(procedure "take_snapshot_sp" line 24)
invoked from: "take_snapshot_sp 0 1"
(procedure "take_snapshot_for_restore" line 4)
invoked from: "take_snapshot_for_restore"
(procedure "load_backup" line 18)
invoked from: "load_backup $chan $fname"
(procedure "MOD::action_backup_restore_read" line 10)
invoked from: "$cmd $chan $path $env"
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[BTUxNine]

re: backup
Directv seems to have dropped the TmsId info from their guide data. Looks like backup falls back to the ServerId which is fine, but since it can contain spaces, the code doesn't handle it properly when it creates the temporary file "temporary_series.tcl".

change line 2703 of backup.itcl from

      puts $fd "  set arr($tmsid) $fsid"

to

      puts $fd "  set \"arr($tmsid)\" $fsid"

You may have to track down and delete "temporary_series.tcl" (check in the modules dir and in /tmp)

Even if you get this problem fixed, there are no guarantees that backup will restore properly with the new guide data.
Please keep us informed of your progress.

[CHRONOMASTER]

re: backup

It worked. Edited backup.itcl, deleted temporary_series.tcl, restarted TWP and Bingo. Thank you for your quick help.

Yes, I understand that it may not restore properly with the new guide data. After the restore I was planning on using Season Pass Fixer to fix broken Season Passes. But before I got to that point I received another error.

Created new Series (fsid 2695181)
Setting Version 5
Setting ServerId ASER-Shin Chan|
Setting ServerVersion 0
Setting Genre 260
(adding to Genre - 369)
(adding to Genre - 257)
(adding to Genre - 124)
Setting ThumbData 268566912
Setting Title Shin Chan

-------INTERNAL SERVER ERROR------
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action:backup_perform_restore, path:, env:submit Restore, code:'0x30012'
commit failed (0x30012)

    while executing
"transaction {uplevel $body}"
    (procedure "RetryTransaction" line 5)
    invoked from: "RetryTransaction {
variable global_backup_nowrite
set global_backup_nowrite 0
if {!$global_backup_nowrite} {
set new_object [db $db create $object_id]..."
    (procedure "create_object" line 6)
    invoked from: "create_object $chan $object_id $object"
    (procedure "conditional_restore" line 10)
    invoked from: "conditional_restore $chan $fsid Series restore_series created_item"
    (procedure "conditional_restore_series" line 4)
    invoked from: "conditional_restore_series $chan [agextract $sp Series]"
    (procedure "perform_restore_sps" line 22)
    invoked from: "perform_restore_sps $chan"
    (procedure "MOD::action_backup_perform_restore" line 15)
    invoked from: "$cmd $chan $path $env"
--cut here--

[jkozee]

Here's a patch to generate NpkChannelDefinition values if they can't be located when creating season passes. I have only tested this on 11.x running on a THD, so other versions on different platforms need to be tested. The season pass will be created on the first channel with a matching stationfsid, which I believe has always been the case, but may be more apparent if you have both cable and ATSC versions of the same station.

I didn't look at the SP backup/restore options, but if they store the NpkChannelDefinition, they may need to be modified because the NpkChannelDefinition contains unit specific object id of the station, not just the tmsid.

[EDIT]
Removed due to a couple of small bugs. I will post another patch soon that fixes those bugs and updates backup.itcl to support creating NpkChannelDefinition.

[ponto]

Has anyone updated this module to work in TWP 2.1? It allows XBMC to stream from a tivo - really usefull! Is there anyone here who can modify it or give me some advice as I would love to get it working.

Thanks in advance

[jkozee]

This patch will create a NpkChannelDefintion objects when adding season passes or when using backup.itcl to restore season passes. It also fixes a few issues I noticed in backup.itcl.

Note: I have only tested this on a THD running 11.0. Also, I attempted to allow for re-mapping of channels when using backup.itcl, but care should be taken when remapping a station that exists on two different channels (i.e. a single station that is on both cable and atsc).

[BTUxNine]

This patch will create a NpkChannelDefintion objects when adding season passes or when using backup.itcl to restore season passes. It also fixes a few issues I noticed in backup.itcl.

Note: I have only tested this on a THD running 11.0. Also, I attempted to allow for re-mapping of channels when using backup.itcl, but care should be taken when remapping a station that exists on two different channels (i.e. a single station that is on both cable and atsc).

I've committed the patch to cvs without further testing (none of the devs are running tivos that use npk).

I'm sure this will be greatly appreciated by those with newer s/w versions, and I hope the backup module will be more reliable, now.

I've also committed fixes for alternate-checking in the history screen... that's been broken ever since directv dropped TMS IDs.

I've also added a # scheduled recordings column to the season pass screen, and if 1) there are no recordings, 2) it's an old-style directv series, and 3) there's a new-style series available, it includes a link to change to the new-style. (reordering SP priorities on the tivo UI may be required for the tivo to start recording the new SP)

[Jamie]

As long as we're updating ui_season_pass.itcl, here's a patch that attempts to display useful info for "type == 15" SeasonPasses. These seem to mostly be "GuruGuides", although I am also seeing an entry with Title="Amazon Video On Demand".

It may be possible to do better with these. This, at least, displays a Title and lines everything up in the right columns, which is better than before.

[xfx]

Excuse me if this has already been fixed on CVS or someone else has already posted a patch.

Anyway, here are the changes required for the "UI->Folders" to work correctly:
1) From folders.itcl, change line 921 from:
set form_td [td "ALIGN=CENTER" [html_form_checkbox "fsid($fsid)" ""]]
to:
set form_td [td "ALIGN=CENTER" [html_form_checkbox "fsida($fsid)" ""]]
2) From confirm.itcl, change line 33 from:
if {$id!=""} {set fsid($id) 1}
to:
if {$id!=""} {set fsida($id) 1}
3) For some reason folders.itcl references checkall.js instead of CheckAll.js and since I don't know where to change that I simply created a copy of script file as "checkall.js".

The folders.itcl has been broken since several versions so I hope this will help the developer correct these issues for the upcoming release.

[ronsch]

I've been noticing an occasional issue with Higuide for a while now. Sometimes it will fail to flag all the items scheduled to record in red. This is a DSR6000 dual-tuner DTiVo running 3.5c and the current(as of today) TWP v2.1.b3 2.1.b3 (oztivo-090223). THese items all appear in ToDo. Log follows:

------============------ Loading ------============------
TivoWebPlus - v2.1.b3 2.1.b3 (oztivo-090223)
The program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This program is licensed under the GPL.
See the 'docs/copyright' and 'docs/index.html' files for copyright and credit information.
Loading libs...
btutils,html,http,index,rec,sendkey,sendkeyavail=1
timezone,ui,util,TimeZone: US
-running init_channelList--- completed in 0 seconds
-running init_logoindex--- completed in 0 seconds
-running init_sp_cache--- completed in 1 seconds
hackman_util,
-- Loading hackman Version 7.0.4 --
-Thursday, February 26, 2009, 06:34 PM, local time
-hackman comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
-This program is licensed under the GPL.
-See the 'docs/Hackman -- LICENSES.txt' file for copyright and credit information.
-Checking TWP version number: newer TivoWebPlus version
-Root directory mounted read-only (recommended)
-hackman utility load completed


Loading modules...backup,channelgrid,channelprefs,chanpref,confirm,confresManual,extract,fileutilities,folde rs,gallery,gdchecker,hackman,higuide,info,livetv,logos,logs,mail,manrec,menus,mfsbrowser,netconfig,n orerecord,phone,preferences,reorder,rowformat,rss,screen,screentext,search,sysadmin,theme,thumbs,tod o_old,todofeed,ui_channel,ui_compat,ui_deletedshows,ui_history,ui_listings,ui_nowshowing,ui_record,u i_search,ui_season_pass,ui_series,ui_showing,ui_todo,update,webremote,whatson,wishlists,
--Warning: The following modules are incompatible with this version of TWP
info_beta,
--Info: The following modules won't be loaded, they may be disabled or rely on an unavailable feature (e.g. events or sendkey)
ChannelMap,cidrss,cvsupdate,folderize,merge,mrv,resources,xPlusz,

- [26/Feb/2009:23:34:36] saving module.cache
Building menus...
Loading completed in 15 seconds
Attempting to open port 8080
Accepting Connections
- [26/Feb/2009:23:34:36] saving dyncfg.cfg
Preload Favs done
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:34:57] /info
loading module info (786360)
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:08] /higuide
loading module higuide (906188)
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:14] /CBS-s1-p1.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:14] /PBS-s1-p1.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:15] /ABC-s1-p1.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:15] /NBC-s1-p1.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:15] /FOX-s1-p1.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:15] /SciFi-s1-p1.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:15] /HBO-s1-p1.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:15] /NewEpisode.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:15] /SeasonPass.9.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:15] /lightningbolt.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:35:27] /higuide
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:36:00] /todo2/0
loading module todo_old (1006528)
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:36:03] /CheckAll.js
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:36:37] /showing/6402815/11
loading module ui_showing (1046992)
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:36:37] /ThumbUp1-256.8.png
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:36:46] /todo2/0
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:36:49] /CheckAll.js
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:36:55] /higuide
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:37:24] /higuide
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:43:58] /logs
loading module logs (1091924)
192.168.1.102 - - [26/Feb/2009 18:44:02] /logs

[tivoq]

I'm running v2.1.b3 on Linux with firefox.

What helper should I be using for the asx links? mplayer, xine, vlc, totem all don't know how to deal with it.

For "live" I don't even get that far., firefox just gives

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (tivo) isn't associated with any program. (The link is tivo://xxxxx).

[unclemoosh]

I'm running v2.1.b3 on Linux with firefox.

What helper should I be using for the asx links? mplayer, xine, vlc, totem all don't know how to deal with it.

For "live" I don't even get that far., firefox just gives

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (tivo) isn't associated with any program. (The link is tivo://xxxxx).

This may help you:

http://dealdatabase.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=356

[Capvermell]

I'm just referring back to this old post by BTUxNine in the TivoWebPlus 2.0 development thread.

See http://dealdatabase.com/forum/showpo...9&postcount=60

In it BTUxNine posts a new ui_compat.itcl file to hopefully allow the OzTivo Yahoo Widget to continue working with TivoWebPlus 2.0

I just tried this with TivoWebPlus v2.1.b3 (oztivo-090223) but although the oztivo widget initially gets a smiley face with the new module installed he doesn't ever manage to complete any of the data polling operations. You see his little antenna buzzing electronically for three or four minute but none of the Now Showing and To Do etc icons ever show as being populated with data. Finally the little Tivo guy gives up and his face goes back to a frown.

I even tried editing the ui_compat.itcl module to add the expression variable compat "2.1.b3" to the first line of the module but it didn't help and OzTivo still can't manage to scrape the data he needs from the TivoWebPlus 2.1.0 pages.

Was there ever a later evolution of this ui_compat.itcl module for TivoWebPlus 2.1.0 for use with the Yahoo OzTivo Widget? I notice I had to overwrite another ui_compat.itcl file that came with the TivoWebPlus 2.1.0 install and that was a larger file than the one in BTUxNine's old post. Howver the OzTivoWidget could not manage to get its data by interfacing with that module either before I tried installing this version.

I should add this is all being run in conjunction with a UK Series 1 Thomson PVR10UK Tivo running software version 2.5.5

[BTUxNine]

the ui_compat module was added to the standard TWP distro quite a while ago, so you should use the one that was there originally.

I'm not sure what has changed since it was working earlier, but your TWP log may help diagnose the issue.

[Capvermell]

I'm not sure what has changed since it was working earlier, but your TWP log may help diagnose the issue.

I don't have a TWP.log file and nothing in any of the four or so other log files (such as tivoweb.log and kernel.log) with entries at around the time OzTivo was accessing the Tivo seem to have relevant data.