[mythtv-users] UDEV rules

[Daryl McDonald]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:47:19 -0500
>> From: darylangela at gmail.com
>> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] UDEV rules
>>
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> ..snip..
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>> I haven't got ssh set up on any of my computers at this point. What I
>> did do though was stop the BE via the terminal, then launch BE setup,
>> and this time it did not ask for authorization to shut down the BE,
>> but still no success with changing in the symlink names. Even though
>> it said failed to open or could not get information for, I loaded them
>> that way anyway, went to the FE and each card was off line.
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> Daryl - do the cards all still say offline? If the changes are not properly
> reversed you may find none of your recordings work.

Yes, until I went back in deleted and reconfigured my cards. I am
functional at this point.
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> If I understand correctly, in mythtv-setup you should not need to 'type' the
> links in. When you go to the capture card screens use the up and down arrows
> until the 'DVB Device' (or equivalent) box is selected and then use left /
> right arrows to cycle through the device links that mythtv-setup has
> identified.

The symlinks do not present themselves with left/right arrows, just
/dev/whatever and /video/whatever.
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> If you get 'Could not get card info' messages then possibly that means there
> are permission issues. Do you run mythtv-setup as the mythtv user, desktop
> user or root? If I understand correctly the user that runs mythtv-setup
> needs to be a member of the video group. In a new terminal type:
>
> cat /etc/group | grep video
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> and check that the user that runs mythtv-setup is a member of the video
> group.

I'll try this as time permits
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> Also, I saw recently that in some situations (and I can't find the
> references again) that mythtv-setup does not always stop the backend
> successfully even though it asks the question and you then answer yes. I now
> always stop mythbackend manually before running mythtv-setup, and then
> manually restart mythbackend once I have finished mythtv-setup. To do this,
> use the appropriate commands in a terminal.

I tried stopping the BE with the terminal; same result
>
> To stop the backend:
> sudo service mythtv-backend stop
>
> To start the backend:
> sudo service mythtv-backend start
>
> To check the running status:
> sudo service mythtv-backend status
>
> To restart the backend:
> sudo service mythtv-backend restart
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thanks Mark,   Daryl
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