Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Aug 14 2019 09:11:00 Hi Nancy! NB>>> Probably... :) I'm currently on the last packet I brought with NB>>> me, downloaded the night before I left to come up here... :) BM>> Here comes the flood of replies! NB>> Yup... and then the predicted drought and then again flood.... NB>> and now I'll be off again for almost a week, again at the Pond... NB>> I'll just keep plodding away at messages and try to not be too NB>> far behind... ;) BM> And I'll be in your shoes shortly -- stretching them out, I'm sure BM> (sorry! ) as off to New Hampshire and then Vienna for a month BM> total. NB> And now soon to return, to find your deluge to answer.... ;) The good news is I did break up the replies into smaller chunks, mainly to not potentially overload my side, but also good stopping points. NB> It's been bad enough for me that I was away for about 3 weeks out NB> of 5 (from June 14 to July 20)... close to being caught up now, NB> admittedly I've not rushed on these replies to you... but pretty NB> current otherwise at the moment... and then a couple weeks still NB> before I'm off again... As I said sometime before, the REPs should be a pleasurable option, not a dutiful requirement. BM>> ...Between finishing my replies and BM>> starting a new one have checked to see if anything from my helper in BM>> New Zealand on the copying of not-yet-watched TV shows from the old BM>> Backend system to the new one. Combination of him helping me and me BM>> helping him as he had previously written the programme just more or BM>> less needed someone to check a few details: things can work fine on a BM>> local system but don't realize I don't have a utility file he does, or BM>> a variable isn't populating quite right, etc. NB>> Works out as a good thing for both of you.... :) BM> Yes, that's what I figure. In one way I get the better of the deal BM> because he's customizing the instructions for what I have here. And BM> he gets to test his utility on a live and 'raw' system and make BM> corrections/comments. LIS, I've needed to install a few utility BM> files. he's needed to make permissions/file ownership alterations. NB> He'll have a more robust piece of software, you'll have a nice NB> working utility.... :) True, though on my end the utilty is a one-function one: the source and destination, file locations, etc., are hard-coded into the software, though I think written in Python so would just need to use a text editor to update. I only vaguely understand so at this point easier to leave all corrections up to him -- plus if I make a change isn't in the 'master' for eventual distribution. BM> The good news is I think we're about ready to do the full transfer of BM> TV show files from the old system to the new. (Yea!!) Waiting for BM> the system to be available currently (the export/import process will BM> pause itself when a show is being recorded so as to not 'overflow' the BM> read/write channels and cause corruption). NB> Sounds promising... :) I'll admit to being amazed at the details, forethought, etc. Possibly due to 'oh poop!' events that happened years ago when he first started creating this set of utilities , but still. And it does work: just before I left I done some testing with larger chunks: move over all shows from Channel 8_3, for instance. (The file names have the channel included.) Couple of 'specific channel' tests, passed. Got 'brave' and tried copying over the remainder: only real difference was instead of a batch of maybe twenty or thirty files was over a hundred files. Passed. :) I didn't have time to update the hardware: update the Frontends (viewing computers) to the current Ubuntu (18.04.3) and the MythTV utility so left alone. Good news for our testing is Backend 2 (the old/original computer doing the recording and storage) is still recording shows and so can be used for our final testing. BM>> So the key is just stay out of potential problem areas! Though not BM>> always possible like with my little incident of having to drive BM>> through that big puddle. NB>> Most of that can be avoided though, with just a little planning NB>> and knowledge... though I ended up once needing to drive through NB>> a deeper than expected puddle on the highway following that major NB>> storm in MD that I had windshield wiper issues in... Got back on NB>> the road, and just a little farther down was that puddle... with NB>> cars driving through it... no place to go to avoid it... ;) BM> Yup: sometimes just can't do anything. In our separate instances had BM> to drive through the puddle else cause an accident. In my case grasp BM> the steering wheel firmly as know there's going to be a sudden and BM> sharp pull. Pay attention to the road plus look for an escape -- in my BM> case there was a street a little beyond I could turn on to but that's a BM> sharp right and if the engine dies I don't have power steering, BM> brakes, etc. A little further was a gas station -- could at least do a BM> 45ø turn and have a little longer distance to stop. Ended up not BM> needing either: chugged (litterally!) on to my dr's appointment. NB> Things all worked out nicely after all... :) Yes, though I'd bet that doctor's appointment would have been a bad time to have done a blood pressure check!! (Wasn't done/necessary.) And I was surprised when the car started right up after my appointment. Was either still raining or had just stopped, forgot. Probably the heat of the engine and gravity pulling the splashed water down cleaned the wires and removed the short. And did have the car checked and the spark plug harness needed replacing: cracked insulation. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... 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