[mythtv-users] Can't get LiveTV to start with DVB

[Matt]

On 3/13/06, Graeme Hilton <graeme.hilton at fishter.org.uk> wrote:
> Matthew Geier wrote:
> > Matt wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> I've been sitting on my HD5000 cards for a while and decided to throw
> >> them in a new slave backend.  So... I put them in, and everything went
> >> very smoothly.  I can record HDTV (there are some glitches, but I'm
> >> sure that's the drivers) and watch what I record, however, I can not
> >> start LiveTV.  The slavebackend shows:
> >>
> >> 2006-03-12 18:08:34.744 TVRec(6): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> >> 2006-03-12 18:08:34.747 TVRec(6) Error: Start channel invalid, setting
> >> to '2_1' on input DVBInput instead.
> >
> >  I managed to get into that state once - and I eventually edited the
> > mysql table.
> >
> >  Live TV returns to the last channel you had watched. If that channel is
> > no more and you can't get lock anymore, LiveTV errors and returns to the
> > menu. I couldn't figure out how to get control back so I could change to
> > a 'real' channel in Myth.
> >  So I went into the DB tinkered..
>
> Go into Schedule Recordings and select a working channel to record from.
>  Do this for as many tuners as you need to "reset".  This should force
> them to retune to the correct channel.
>
> After a few seconds, you can go into Watch Recordings and delete them.
> Then you can watch LiveTV as the cards will start on the channels they
> last recorded from.
>
> This might not be quite true if you have EIT scanning enabled for
> filling the program database.
>
> --
> Graeme Hilton

This worked for me :)  Not sure what it changed, but the startchannel
in the database appeared to be correct before.

Thanks!
Matt