Questions[mythbuntu](ubuntu)

As of today, TMDB dropped support for their version 2.1 api, which is where (mythvideo, at least) is grabbing their data.

How do we set the Ubuntu version of mythtv (0.25) up to use the version 3 api, which is still supported?

I tried replacing tmdb.py with tmdb3.py, and this seems to have helped some, but it seems to crash when more than one possible match is encountered. Also, I'm not sure if something needs to be done for tvdb searches as well, as I don't currently have any Mythvideo TV shows that are missing metadata.

Any help that could be provided would be greatly appreciated.

When mythbuntu-control-centre is installed on Xubuntu 13.04, it generates the following error immediately after it is executed from the command line:

**royg@MythTV:~$ mythbuntu-control-centre
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/mythbuntu-control-centre", line 40, in <module>
    from aptdaemon.gtkwidgets import (AptErrorDialog,
ImportError: cannot import name AptMessageDialog**

When it is executed from the Settings Manager - System dialog box, nothing appears to happen.

I've heard about both, however I've never been able to distinguish how they are distinct, Mythbuntu as I see it is used as a Desktop environment, whereas MythTV seems to be installed on a TV itself with an equivalent App on the Mythbuntu desktop. I may be entirely wrong in making this assumption though.

I've also heard of Mythbuntu being used as a "frontend " with MythTV as a "backend " if someone could clarify this concept I'd be quite grateful as for me I thought MythTV also qualified as a "frontend".

In short:

• How are Mythbuntu and MythTV related and what are their major differences?
• What are the definitions of a frontend and backend in the case of Mythbuntu and MythTV?
• Is Mythbuntu required for MythTV to work?

I've already read the following questions but I've got very basic knowledge on this issue and none really explain things in an Average Joe-esque way for users with little knowledge on the subject.

• How do I connect a MythTV frontend to a MythTV backend on Mythbuntu 11.10?

• How do I Install MythTV on a Lenovo S12 with wireless?

• Mythmote wont connect to mythbuntu 12.04, seems frontend is not listening on all interfaces

What I'm trying to do is send caller ID (CID) information from a system running Asterisk+FreePBX to all (3) MythTV frontend systems on my network. I'd like the CID information to pop-up over top of whatever is going on (eg, whether it's on a menu, or playing back a recording). Eventually there may be other information as well, but for now CID would be a great start.

The libnotify-style notifications are fine (though I probably need to increase text size to make it visible). I was thinking something like Growl, though this doesn't seem to exist for Linux.

Ideally I'd just be able to do some kind of broadcast to the whole network, eg, from the FreePBX system I could run a command like:

notify --broadcast  --title "Incoming Call"  "Smith J\n613-555-1234"

And then on any mythtv frontend, it would appear somewhere on screen.

Note: there is a MythNotify plugin, which I have used in a previous iteration of my setup, but it has a severe limitation (I believe based on the way MythTV's OSD stuff works) that it can only display notifications during video playback: not while in menus. I also remember it being a pain to get displaying properly: it uses XML for messaging then XSLT to change to mythtv's XML format. If you want to display something slightly differently, you have to make a small handful of new XML files and even then getting the "callerid-from-phonebook.xml" message to actually render to the (remote) "callerid-from-phonebook-osd.xml" file for display is some kind of black art.

How do I set a system wide wireless WPA password that starts at boot time, allowing me to SSH in to the machine from outside, for example?

I'm running mythbuntu. Until I log in, WiFi doesn't connect, so I can't use SSH to log in from another computer, for example. When I have auto-login enabled, it asks me to enter my password to unlock my keyring before connecting. I've tried editing the connection and clicking "Available to all users", but then it just doesn't connect at all.

How do I go about debugging this problem, or how can I configure it totally manually?