[mythtv-users] After 7y5m running, time to start from scratch after update to .27?

[Matthias Thyroff]

On 26.11.2013 04:40, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 11/25/2013 03:08 PM, Matthias wrote:
>> Am 25.11.2013 05:41, schrieb Michael T. Dean:
>>> On 11/23/2013 10:16 AM, Nick Morrott wrote:
>>>> On 22 November 2013 21:16, Matthias Thyroff wrote:
> I'll agree that setting up channels is the worst part of configuring a 
> MythTV box.  However, if you start with a new database, you'll have to 
> do that, anyway.  So, rather than going full nuclear and throwing away 
> your entire database just because you think you have a problem with 
> your channel configuration, I'm simply suggesting you throw away 
> *only* the channel configuration information with "Delete all video 
> sources" as it will accomplish the exact same thing as starting with a 
> new database and prevents your having to reconfigure everything else.
>
> Agreed.  As a matter of fact, I would bet that the problem is not due 
> to any MythTV configuration at all (TTBOMK, we don't have any 
> "communicate incorrectly with the master backend" setting ;).
>
>

Hello everybody,

just a short message to close this thread properly.

I did not start from scratch to recover a working myth system.

I fixed the crashing backend by cleaning up the sources and channels.

I fixed the comunication problem ("mythcontext: backend is online") by 
switching to another network card.

And just to be sure, I did as Mike recommended, deleted all sources, 
cards and channels and started that part from scratch.

That was what I actually wanted to prevent, and it took me a good part 
of a day to get it all back configured. Running the tv_grab_eu_epgdata 
script did not write the xmltv config file. Had to run it from a command 
line. Scanning dvb-s does not seem to work too well,either: In the first 
run, it did find only very few channels. In the second run, it found 
much more. In the third run, it had lost the LNB configuration, after 
fixing that, it ran and had all channels. But it also had many duplicate 
channels. After cleaning the duplicates, I had channels that would not 
tune. I also made a script to clean up and sort the channels list and 
assign XMLTV ids. But it seems that mythfilldatabase is not run by 
housekeeping.

But the weekend is over, and myth is running. That's all I wanted.

Thanks for the great support on the list, have a good week,

Matthias