[mythtv-users] MythTV Light + Raspberry Pi 3

[Mike Bibbings]

On 23/10/16 06:30, marshalj at spots.ab.ca wrote:
> Bought a Raspberry Pi to replace an Intel Compute Stick frontend that 
> stopped booting.  Raspbian + MythTV Light (0.27), got the whole thing 
> working nicely in only an hour or so, including the install of Raspian 
> which probably took 20 minutes of that.  Overall, a very cool little 
> box, and I give the version 3 units five thumbs up.
>
> Recordings and videos are working fine, but the plugin-related stuff 
> like Myth Music and Myth-everything-else aren't showing up in the 
> frontend.  Like they're not even in the menu.  Weird.
>
> I'm not finding a ton of doc on MythTV Light for the Raspberry Pi, and 
> I've never had stuff just not show up in the frontend menus before, so 
> I'm not sure where to turn other than here for help.  Sorry if this 
> sounds silly, but is there something I need to do to "connect" or 
> "register" the plugins with the frontend?  Maybe the themes that come 
> with MythTV Light just don't have those things listed?  Seems like an 
> odd design choice given someone put the effort into assembling the 
> plugins package...
>
> Hoping this is just me being dumb and missing something obvious...
>
> PS. I removed and re-installed the two Light packages, but nothing 
> changed.  Also ran it as root, same thing.  Wiped the 'pi' homedir, 
> nothing changed.  Blew away the settings table entries for this 
> frontend, you guess it, no change.
>
> I'm puzzled!!  Hoping someone can help me out here, I'm pretty stumped!!
>
> ---
> Jason M
>
>
I am running mythtv-light 0.28 on RPi3 and have the plugins such as 
mythnews mythbrowser etc.

What does "apt-cache policy mythtv-light mythplugins-light" show >
Mine gives:

mythtv-light:
   Installed: 0.28-76-g7f8f168-0
   Candidate: 0.28-76-g7f8f168-0
   Version table:
  *** 0.28-76-g7f8f168-0 0
         500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ jessie/myth28 armhf 
Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      0.28-68-g07a52a0-0 0
         500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ jessie/myth28 armhf 
Packages
      0.28-66-gb36ab87-0 0
         500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ jessie/myth28 armhf 
Packages
      0.28-55-g2faf5fe-0 0
         500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ jessie/myth28 armhf 
Packages
      0.28-51-g880d3a3-0 0
         500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ jessie/myth28 armhf 
Packages
      0.28-49-g0fe2fc1-0 0
         500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ jessie/myth28 armhf 
Packages
mythplugins-light:
   Installed: 0.28-40-g7a4e9ab-2
   Candidate: 0.28-40-g7a4e9ab-2
   Version table:
  *** 0.28-40-g7a4e9ab-2 0
         500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/ jessie/myth28 armhf 
Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Mike