[mythtv-users] Backend setup for win-hvr-950Q

[Raymond Wagner]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:43:19 -0500, "Saul A. Peebsen" <jaglover at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:24:58 -0400
> Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:11:22 -0500, "Saul A. Peebsen"
>> <jaglover at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You should start frontend in a terminal to see more error messages,
>> > also run tail on backend log same time and make sure permissions on
>> > adapter0 are correct.
>> 
>> Frontend and backend? He's still in mythtv-setup without a properly
>> configured tuner card and source.  Mythbackend won't run without a
>> configured card and source.  Mythfrontend won't run without an
>> operation backend.
> 
> I can definitely run backend without any cards configured here,
> version 0.24.1_p20110726.

No, you can't.  The master backend has a sanity check in the scheduler
that requires a source be configured with at least one channel, and
connected to an input.  It doesn't care where that tuner card is located,
it just assumes if you have no usable source, you screwed something up that
should be resolved before you can continue.  Unless you have altered your
code to remove that check, you cannot be running a backend without at least
one card configured on some host in the database.