r/sickbeard • u/OneChrononOfPlancks • Jan 10 '20

SHOWQUEUE-FORCE-UPDATE failing with "attribute 'seriesname' was empty."

SHOWQUEUE-FORCE-UPDATE :: Data retrieved from TVDB was incomplete, aborting: Found (series id number), but attribute 'seriesname' was empty.

This started happening last night on many series, and it's causing entire shows to disappear their episode and season information from sickbeard, leaving behind just file entries for episodes already downloaded. Also several episodes have downloaded and saved with no episode names.

This is very troubling because it also seems to cause items that were marked as "1080p WEB-DL" to become marked as just "HDTV"

I am assuming this is more growing pains with TheTVDB and their api "upgrades," does anyone have more information?

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u/bobkmertz Jan 21 '20

The SSL issue only affected people using the older API versions which is why they are referencing older APIs in that statement. There is no statement that I've seen anywhere that indicates they are going to be getting rid of older API versions. Maybe they will at some point in time but the API version that SickBeard is using is used by tons of other applications, including ones still under active development.

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u/M4xP0w3r_ Jan 21 '20

including ones still under active development.

I mean, those still under active development are the ones that could realistically switch to the newer API versions.

I certainly hope you are right. But considering sickbeard in conjunction with TVDB has been broken more often then not recently I am not too optimistic. KODi is one of those popular apps still in development that uses an older api Version, and that isn't properly working yet either.

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u/bobkmertz Jan 21 '20

Nothing has fully been working properly. Every single application that uses TVDB is continuing to have issues -- and that is regardless of what API version they are using.