[mythtv-users] "Already using all available inputs" error on brand new installation

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 10:57:11 UTC 2007


On 18/04/07, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
> MythTV users,
>
> I've been using MythTV on one computer for a while to test how it works
> and make sure I can configure it.
>
> I recently got a second computer to act as a dedicated MythTV box. I
> moved my Hauppauge PVR-150 card from the old computer into the new.
>
> I'm using Ubuntu Feisty, which has, or should have, built in IVTV
> support, and dmesg seems to confirm that it is installed and working.
>
> I've successfully downloaded TV show data with XMLTV and inserted it
> into the database.
>
> In mythbackend setup, I have selected "MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50,
> PVR-500)" as my card type. And "Probed info" shows "Hauppauge WinTV
> PVR150 [ivtv]". In the channel editor, I see all my selected channels.
>
> However, when I open mythfrontend and simply select to watch TV, I get
> this odd message:
>
> MythTV is already using all available inputs for the channel you selected.
> If you want to watch an in-progress recording, select one from the
> playback menu.
> If you want to watch live TV, cancel one of the in-progress recordings
> from the delete menu.
>
> I haven't selected to record anything at all yet, so I don't understand
> how any recordings could be in progress.

At a guess you have no inputs correctly defined, therefore you have no
available inputs even with nothing being recorded.

So probably your guide data isn't correctly 'attached' to your input
source.  Sorry I can't be more specific but I'd concentrate on the
input sources section of mythtv-setup.


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