[mythtv-users] rookie mythtv prospective user

[Mike Perkins]

paltron wrote:
> My desjtop is permanently connected by broadband to the Internet and is NOT
> part of a local network. I installed, de-installed, re-installed MythTV
> several times, I even tried this Mythbuntu crap, always ended up with the
> screen I described. Setup?What setup?I can't even get that far. I'm very
> frustrated, because it's most likely a tiny thing. At this point I yanked
> everything and reverted to my Hauppage WinTV 150 card's ability to watch live
> TV. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: Johnny Russ To: Discussion about
> mythtv Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users]
> rookie mythtv prospective user
> 
> 
> Make sure you have a working network connection. Even if you have the
> frontend and backend on the same machine, the frontend will complain and
> bring up the screens you described if it can't reach the backend over the
> network. If your network is funning fine, then you will want to check and
> make sure things got done properly with mythtv setup. Make sure the settings
> for the backend ip address and the mysql settings are right. There is info on
> checking these things on the mythtv wiki.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:57 AM, paltron <paltron at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> I have a Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) desktop. Hardware requirements duly met.
> MythTV installs (both front and backend), however, when I fire up the
> computer I get to the blue config screen, with no mouse control whatsoever,
> only the tab key and the enter key works. It starts with a language
> preference, then goes into a seemingly preset configuration mode, asking
> about ping, mysql, gives a password, then I somehow navigate to finish and
> the whole thing freezes there. After a reboot (tried both hot and cold) same
> scenario, except it also tells me that no backend was found. It can't be just
> me (I hope). What am I doing wrong (if anything)? Paul
> 
Sounds like you are being automatically dumped into the front-end setup, when
what you need to do is to set up the backend first.

The front-end setup is what you will get the first time you fire up the
frontend, ie by typing 'mythtv' or 'mythfrontend' at a command prompt (or
something similar). It might be that your installation process automatically
fires up one of these.

You need to start 'mythtv-setup' first and go through the process of registering
your TV card, sources, channels etc before you can hope to get the frontend
going. The 'mythtv-setup' program fills in much of the database which is
required by the frontend(s) to operate.

A working network isn't required for the basics if you supply 'localhost' for
the address of the backend. But you will need to have networking configured:
this tends to be a given in most linux installations, so you are probably there. 
And your connection to your broadband modem counts as 'a network'.

You will also need to have an Internet connection in order to be able to
download program schedules.

Good Luck!

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Mike Perkins