[mythtv-users] MythBackend with no Tuners

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:33 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
> For some years I have had a BE/FE setup on this desktop machine at work.
>
> Purely for research and testing purposes, of course.
>
> The box has no tuners, but uses a copy of the mythconverg database from
> the mythbox at home. The 'programs' 'recorded' here are mainly downloads
> or copies of programs recorded at home.
>
> Recently, I upgraded to Fedora 16 and a new git of master trunk. The
> backend starts but after checking the tuners, and finding none, shuts down.
>
> This used to work. I would like to have 'tuners' to match the lineup
> inputs and be able to view the upcoming TV schedule.
> Does anyone know why this no longer works, and how, if at all, I can
> work-around it?

The problem of having the backend startup fail can be alleviated by
using a dummy tuner, it's an option that started (I think) in 0.24.