1.32 x64 doesn't offer upgrade? (1 Viewer)

[gpnash]

I'm surprised. MediaPortal has always been easy to move forward with. Each release building on the last, until x64 that is.
Ran the installer and it installed the x64 version beside and partially on top of my old 1.31 x86 version.
and you guessed it, when I tried to remove it, it corupted the 1.31 x86 version so I'm left with a bit of a mess.

It would have been nice if the x64 version upgraded the old version or at least installed separately beside the x86 version.
A warning would have been appreciated.

I'm off to see what, if anything I can recover.

 

[david_31262]

Thanks for posing this. I haven't updated in awhile. I'm going to stick with x86 for now.

Bummer that no one else chimed in here. Seems like Media Portal isn't very active anymore (maybe everyone is going to Plex or Kodi).

I mostly use Media Portal to manage OTA recording. There seems to be less and less on free TV every season.

 

[joecrow]

Thanks for posing this. I haven't updated in awhile. I'm going to stick with x86 for now.

Bummer that no one else chimed in here. (maybe everyone is going to Plex or Kodi).

I mostly use Media Portal to manage OTA recording. There seems to be less and less on free TV every season.

The OP was prior to the current release in Feburary this year of MP 1.33 which resolved a number of installation issues present in MP 1.32 particularly the x64 version and has been very thoroughly tested in a variety of scenarios, none the less it is important to bear in mind that since MP 1.33 x64 now includes an x64 version of the TV Server a direct upgrade path from previous x86 versions is not fully supported as I understand it. In addition only x64/Any CPU versions of plugins will function properly with the x64 version. Without going into details if you want to upgrade to x64 best is to save the settings and plugin setups, uninstall the old x86 version then do a fresh install of the x64 version and desired x64 compatible plugins then manually transfer the saved setups to it. Either that or stay on x86 and just upgrade to x86 version of MP 1.33!
Given that the MP1.33 release in Feb. this year includes such extensive and major works to bring it up to a full x64 version with most of the popular plugins having also been upgraded to run with x64 and a major migration of the Online Videos plugin to get it working more reliably with Netflix etc. on top of a recent MP 2 release I find it very hard to understand how you can justify your comment that "Seems like Media Portal isn't very active anymore"

 

[Noise672]

Hi Joecrow,

I just realise now that I did not upgraded...

I have downloaded and installed MediaPortalSetup_x64_1.32.000_2023-10-28-21-54 back in November 2023. (successful - no error)
Then downloaded and installed MediaPortalSetup_x64_1.33.000_2024-02-29-10-51 in March 2024. (successful - no error)
Then downloaded and installed MediaPortalSetup_x64_1.34.000_2024-06-19-16-20 in June 2024. (successful - no error)
Then downloaded and installed MediaPortalSetup_x64_1.35.000_2024-09-19-09-59 last week. (successful - no error)

I did not know these installations installed the Client x64 version beside my old 1.31 Client x86 version. (I don't use MediaPortal client)
I did not know these installations did not install the Server.(Log: TVServer component isn't already installed.--> Means it is a TVClient-only installation.)

I only use Android clients: XBMC and MPExtended/MPTvScheduler.

I will upgrade to x86 for now. Should I go directly to 1.35 from 1.31 or should I do 1.32 , 1.33, 1.34 and 1.35 installations.

Then I will have a look at moving to X64.
I really need TVServerKodi and XmlTv plugins as well as MPExtended/MPTvScheduler - Android client.

Thank you for your advise.

 

[joecrow]

I will upgrade to x86 for now. Should I go directly to 1.35 from 1.31 or should I do 1.32 , 1.33, 1.34 and 1.35 installations.

If MP 1.31 x86 is really the version you are running then it should be OK to go directly to MP 1.35 x86 and any installed x86 plugins should continue to work. If you do decide to go for x64 at some point you should make sure all the plugins you need are available in x64 and I would recommend a complete unistall of the x86 version and MySQL and deletion of any left over folders before doing a "fresh" install of the latest x64 version.
I would also recommend taking an system image backup before upgrading or installing a new version of MP, better safe than sorry.

 

[Noise672]

Thank you joecrow,

I have upgraded directly to 1.35 x86 from 1.31 x86.
All is good.

Thanks again

Edit: 2024-10-23, All was good but after a Windows reboot, MPExtended log: Failed to connected to TV service database. (MySQL).
Went to 1.33 x64 with new MPExtended 0.7.7 x64.
All is good