Pre-testing of MediaPortal 1.2.3 (3 Viewers)

[Sebastiii]

Hi Fabrizio,

You don't need to reinstall all after if you do the method explain here : https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/pre-testing-of-mediaportal-1-2-3.106441/#post-850487
You can do it with official installer too, so you can test and back to previous version.

Also i do it like this :
I'm on singleseat :
So i stop TVService : by doing : net stop tvservice (under cmd dos)
Going to C:\Program Files (x86)\Team MediaPortal and copy the actual dir to keep a backup.
Do the same for : C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal

Like this we can install from separate installer onto a copy of current installation.
After testing, we have just to rename the current version from new installer like "MediaPortal TV Server.TEST_PRE_1.2.3" and "MediaPortal.TEST_PRE_1.2.3" and copy back your backup

Like this i can keep setting etc. and ofc you are right, you can try with your current setup
Seb.

 

[elliottmc]

Hi elliotmc,

i guess no one is taking care of testing, because he cannot upgrade later with the final version.... me too, for example, would like to try it upgrading one of my clients, but I don't want to reinstall all after because i cannot upgrade with final version. And i don't have a spare pc where i can do that... so, just waiting...

ciao

Fabrizio

Hi,

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it.

I have explained how you can update your 1.2.2 install to this 1.2.3 test, and then update to the final 1.2.3 from here. Honestly, there is no reason not to test, and many reasons to do it.

Best wishes,

Mark

 

[Fabrix67]

ok, i will try first on a VM (singleseat), and then MP Client on a client pc and finally TVServer on the server (in prod i have one server and three cleints).
last but not least: is there any update on the DBs or not, so i can revert to previous version without any issue ?
thx
Fabrizio

 

[Sebastiii]

Fabrizio, there is no DBs change.

 

[elliottmc]

ok, i will try first on a VM (singleseat), and then MP Client on a client pc and finally TVServer on the server (in prod i have one server and three cleints).
last but not least: is there any update on the DBs or not, so i can revert to previous version without any issue ?
thx
Fabrizio

I also have a multiseat setup, and this works fine for me. I always install and test before asking anyone else to do the same.

Mark

 

[regeszter]

After upgrade my installation, the config.exe can't start.

 

[elliottmc]

After upgrade my installation, the config.exe can't start.

Thanks for testing. It is appreciated.

I can reproduce this. It looks as though one of the more recent changes broke it. I will try to get this sorted ASAP.

I don't know whether this will affect other things such as music playback or visualisations.

Mark

 

[elliottmc]

Hi,

Please replace BassRegistration.dll in your MediaPortal application folder with the attached one. This should be an easy one to fix!

This file was part of the fix for mantis 3810, so at the moment with this file replaced it isn't at all clear whether this problem will be fixed.

Mark

 

[porky996t]

Mark,

Will test client on spare laptop tomorrow morning.

 

[onelegend]

I'll help with testing, will prob have to setup a dual boot as I run mepo with the custom data grabber mods and unless its possible to install mepo multiple times don't want to touch my install as its pretty stable atm

Will setup the dual boot this week, been meaning to do it for a while as there seems to be a big calling for more testing to be done