[mythtv-users] FW: Channel listing on mythweb from PDA broken

Fri Sep 16 22:30:08 UTC 2011

On 17/09/2011 08:21, Michael Watson wrote:
> On 15/09/2011 21:40, Anthony Rooney wrote:
>> *From:*mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Watson
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 September 2011 11:32 PM
>> *To:* Discussion about MythTV
>> *Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] FW: Channel listing on mythweb from PDA
>> broken
>>
>> On 14/09/2011 21:18, Anthony Rooney wrote:
>>
>> *From:*mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> <mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org>
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Watson
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 14 September 2011 12:40 AM
>> *To:* Discussion about MythTV
>> *Subject:* Re: [mythtv-users] FW: Channel listing on mythweb from PDA
>> broken
>>
>> On 13/09/2011 23:07, Anthony Rooney wrote:
>>
>> *From:*mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
>> <mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org>
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] *On Behalf Of *Anthony Rooney
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 September 2011 8:18 PM
>> *To:* mythtv-users at mythtv.org<mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> *Subject:* [mythtv-users] Channel listing on mythweb from PDA broken
>>
>> Previously I used my Nokia E63 to connect to MythWeb and selected
>> “Listings” and then the channel to see what was scheduled on that
>> channel at that particular time and could scroll forward and back as
>> required and select recording etc. Following the upgrade from 0.23 to
>> 0.24 I can no longer get listings to work from my E63 and all works as
>> normal from any PC based web browser client connecting to MythWeb.
>>
>> Now when I select listings and then the channel I am taken to a screen
>> with the current date and the Jump button with no listings below. I
>> cannot figure out why this no longer works. I downloaded a different
>> browser to the E63 with no good effect. I tried the reset MythWeb
>> template default command from the PDA browser (?RESET_TMPL=true) which
>> also did not work.
>>
>> Everything work Ok using MythWeb from any computer or laptop based
>> browser but does not work anymore from the Nokia.> From the Nokia all
>> of the other MythWeb functions also work fine – Upcoming Recordings,
>> Recorded Programs and Backend status display all the required data but
>> not Listings.
>>
>> I tried creating a second authorised user based on some feedback I
>> found on Google that you need a 2^nd user for PDA however ran into
>> trouble with the HTPASSWD command not allowing me to add a second
>> user. I then used the –C option which created an new htpasswd file
>> which has stopped Apache2 from starting the web service I presume
>> because it know it has a different hash. It seems I have swallowed the
>> spider to catch the fly trying to fix this in the absence of any
>> advise or assistance.
>>
>> I cannot be the only one to have had listing break on PDA devices yet
>> not help.
>>
>> This is a very useful feature which people will want to use so how do
>> you get assistance or advice when it stops working?
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> I cannot believe I am the only one using a PDA device to access
>> MythWeb in the manner described so how come I get absolutely no
>> assistance or suggestions to help me get round such a debilitating
>> problem using this feature? MythWeb is as useful as an ashtray on a
>> motorbike or tits on a bull if you cannot use mobile devices to load
>> an interface that is usable. This stopped working without reason
>> following an “upgrade” from 0.23 to 0.24 so how do I recover this
>> functionality??
>>
>> This is supposed to be a USER forum so how do users get assistance?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> For what its worth,
>>
>> I tested the same on my Nokia E71, and get the same result as you.
>> Relevent line from the Apache access.log file is:
>>
>> "GET /mythweb/tv/channel/1207/20110914 HTTP/1.1" 200 1128 *MailScanner
>> has detected a possible fraud attempt from "10.0.11.10" claiming to
>> be* "http://10.0.11.10/mythweb/tv/list"
>> <http://10.0.11.10/mythweb/tv/list>  "Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U;
>> Series60/3.1 NokiaE71-1/510.21.009; Profile/MIDP-2.0
>> Configuration/CLDC-1.1 ) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413"
>>
>> Pasting *MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:*
>> http://10.0.11.10/mythweb/tv/channel/1207/20110914 into a web browser
>> on my desktop gives the listing for that channel as expected. No
>> errors are logged in the apache error.log
>>
>> MythTV Version : v0.24.1-84-g8f865a6
>> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.24
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback Michael, you are the only one that responded
>> to this question in over 3 weeks. I guess there are not many people
>> using their mobile devices to access MythTv listings, which is very
>> surprising. Do you think this is a bug and there is no work-a-round?
>>
>> I have an image of my 0.23 installation which I will restore as I lost
>> so much with the “upgrade” to 0.24. Perhaps my KWorld dual tuner DVB-T
>> 160 will start working again in the old environment. This was another
>> question I raised on the forum without a single suggestion to fix so I
>> pulled out the card in put it in a Windows machine where it works OK.
>> I actually thought the card had failed not expecting a upgrade to 0.24
>> to kill it so completely.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>>
>>
>>
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>> Yes, frustrating when nobody replies, yet many people can generate a
>> lot of crud on a seemingly simple topic such as whether to run GUI on
>> a standalone BE.
>>
>> With the Nokia, I am assuming its a bug, caused by what I am unsure. I
>> think because its not an iPhone or an Android, nobody seems to care
>> anymore that there are other devices out there (although, as I dont
>> own either of these phones, have not tested on them)
>>
>> Not had any tuner related issues with 0.24, until recently that is,
>> but I think that is more a kernel / startup timing issue. My AverMedia
>> Super 007, was unable to tune channels at random. Adding a 20 sec
>> delay to mythtv-backend startup script fixed that issue. (Although
>> MythTV developers strongly deny that it could be caused by MythTV
>> itself). This problem only started about two weeks ago, possibly after
>> a kernel upgrade.
>>
>> Although, I have no knowledge of your KWorld Tuner, what issues where
>> you having with it?
>> What version of 0.24 are you running?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> I agree that although this forum is supposed to be about user issues
>> it seem to be dominated by highly technical people who discuss in
>> depth fringe marginal engineering variables and when simple user
>> issues are raised they are simply ignored. There seems an underlying
>> contempt to the “nob” user. There also seems to be a very adverse
>> response to anyone reporting aspect of the Myth interface that is
>> confusing to new users. You would think that such feedback is very
>> valuable however is often treated with extreme hostility with shoot
>> the messenger responses..
>>
>> I though being able to use my Nokia E63 to schedule recording was
>> really cool and cannot believe that is could completely break with a
>> “upgrade”. Worse is the lack of support and help to troubleshoot
>> suggesting a degree of denial in some quarters.
>>
>> Concerning the Kworld 160 it was working fine for 11 months and when I
>> upgraded to 0.24 I got a problem when it could not lock a channel even
>> though the signal was strong. It would work 15% of the time but fail
>> for the rest. The previous kernel did not support the Kworld so I had
>> to download and install the firmware AF9015 however this was not
>> changed by the MythTv upgrade.
>>
>> I posted several messages providing details and got zippo support and
>> in the end I ripped out the card thinking I had a hardware fault and
>> was stunned to see it work fine in window. How can an upgrade wipe you
>> out like this and get zippo from the support forum.
>>
>>
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> Regarding your KWorld Tuner. I found this link regarding Tuning problems
> and this card. Not sure if its your issue, and its over 12 months old,
> but may be relevent
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1458234&page=6
>
> Or this link, that indicates that updating your kernel to 2.6.37-12 (or
> better) might solve the problem.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
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