[mythtv-users] Selecting "Watch TV" exits right away?

David Brieck Jr. dbrieck at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 15:56:03 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Igor Chudov wrote:
>
>> Nothing useful shows up in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log.
>
> I bet there is something useful there.
>
>> mythtv-status shows
>>
>> kinozal:tv:~==>mythtv-status
>> QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range
>>
>> MythTV status for localhost
>> ===========================
>> Status...........: Wed Jan 14 2009, 9:16 AM
>> Total Disk Space.: Total space is 36,382 MB, with 9,205 MB used
>> (25.3%)
>> Next Recording In: Never
>> Guide Data.......: No guide data!
>>
>> Any idea why selecting "Watch TV" returns me right back to the main
>> menu?
>
> Yes. The line right above this one.
> "No guide data!"
>
> Did you scan for channels? Did you turn in EIT or are otherwise
> getting guide data from some other source (like Schedules Direct or
> some other xmltv grabber script)?
>
> -Brad
>

I don't think you have to have guide data for livetv to work, but you
do need to at least scan for channels for the hdhomerun in myth setup.


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