[mythtv-users] Program Listings without capture cards

David Fishburn fishburn at ianywhere.com
Sun Oct 29 19:28:12 UTC 2006


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael T. Dean
> Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:18 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv] Re: [mythtv-users] Program Listings without 
> capture cards
> 
> On 10/29/06 12:37, David Fishburn wrote:
> 
> >I just setup MythTH (for my first time) on Ubuntu Edgy using VMWare.
> >I haven't figured out how to check the versions yet, but this is 
> >definitely .20 (and maybe some fixes).
> >
> >This was essentially a practice run. 
> >
> >Since I am running in VMWare I do not have any capture cards.
> >But I did sign up with Zap2It, and ran mythfilldatabase.  Judging by 
> >the output of that command and the length of time it ran it 
> should have 
> >populated the database.
> >
> >When I go here:
> >http://fishburn-ub2e/mythweb/settings/channels
> >
> >Fatal Error at 
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/includes/channels.php, line 58:
> >No channels were detected. Are you sure that MythTV is 
> properly configured?
> >
> >
> >Should I expect to be able to see program listings even if 
> there is no 
> >way I can record them and so on?
> >
> 
> Nope.  Myth only shows you the channels you can watch/record 
> through Myth.

Excellent, then it appears I set this up correctly.


> Or, even better, go out and pick yourself up a capture card 
> and use MythTV as it was meant to be used.  :)

Yep, that is why it was a practice run.  The hardware is supposed to be
ready this week, but the capture card wont show up until the following
Monday.  Bugger.

Dave



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