[mythtv-users] Remove dead slave server from database?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/04/2009, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >
>>  > So much for the 30-60 second prediction. I am now unable to watch live
>>  > TV on any of the PVR tuners after deleting all cards and starting
>>  > over. 30 minutes and counting.
>>  >
>>  > Starting over for the 3rd time...
>>
>>
>> /me blinks a few times, looks puzzled...
>
> You're not the only one, so as it has been a while...
>
>>  OK, guess I should have made it clear that it's a 30-60 second
>>  exercise when you do it *right*. Not sure what the point of this
>>  e-mail was-- I think it was to make it my fault?  As always, this list
>>  manages to punish any good deed.
>
> ... I just went through the motions on a spare box I have and deleted
> and reconfigured the DVB-S and DVB-T cards, leaving the video sources
> well alone. It took a couple of minutes to check everthing and then
> restart the backend, and then the frontend. LiveTV started up straight
> away. This is a 0.21-fixes installation.
>
> The only tasks one should need to carry out on the Input Connections pages are:
>
> i) choose which video source to bind to the card input
> ii) choose a name for the input
> iii) choose a starting channel *
>
> Deleting and reconfiguring capture cards in mythtv-setup will not
> affect how they are detected and configured by the kernel at startup.
> Neither will it affect already configured channels in MythTV - this is
> part of the Video Sources configuration.
>
> Adding a new capture card and connecting it to an already defined
> source, or deleting and reconfiguring all current capture cards and
> reattaching them to predefined video sources, are straightforward
> processes and should not require completely starting over.
>
> Nick
>
> * having an invalid starting channel can break LiveTV
>
> --
> Nick Morrott
>

Don't make it sound so simple guys. ;-)

OK - here's what happened. When you scroll through the areas where you
set up new cards mythtv-setup highlights the fields and also gives
some text highlights about what each field is for. On my system
however mythtv-setup does *not* highlight the card type box. It
highlights every other box but not that one. The default was V4L and I
needed IVTV for the PVR cards. After 3 times through there, deleting
cards and starting over, reading each text highlight I finally noticed
this and set it to IVTV. Problem was that even when it's set to V4L it
says it sees a PVR-150 which sounds correct but obviously isn't.

Live TV is once again working. I set it up to record two programs at
4PM which have started recording and look OK so far. I'll let them
both finish out at 4:30 but it looks OK now.

Thanks,
Mark