[mythtv-users] Watch TV works, but recording doesn't.

[Michael T. Dean]

Andrew Haigh wrote:

> Hello all,
> After a hellish time getting Myth working on Fedora Core 4 on a 
> shuttle zen with a pvr-350 card (I'm definitely NOT impressed with the 
> installation complexity!), I can now chug around the menus with the 
> Hauppauge remote, and watch live tv.
>
> But pressing the 'record' button brings up 'Record ""' on the display 
> for a few seconds and thats it!
>
> I notice from the mythfrontend log that I get:
> Scheduled 0 items in 0.2 = 0.14 match + 0.01 place
>
> When I back out of Live TV, and look in (say) the Media 
> Library)->Watch recordings, it just says there are no recordings 
> available...
>
> What am I doing wrong?

Fill your program guide using mythfilldatabase.  
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-9.html#ss9.4

Mike