[mythtv-users] MythTV Light + Raspberry Pi 3

[Curtis Gedak]

On 2016-10-23 09:42 AM, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 10/23/2016 11:03 AM, marshalj at spots.ab.ca wrote:
>>
>>     > What does "apt-cache policy mythtv-light mythplugins-light" show >
>>
>>     Thanks Mike, here is what mine shows: 
>>
>>
>>         root at frontend2:~# apt-cache policy mythtv-light mythplugins-light
>>
>>         mythtv-light:
>>
>>           Installed: 0.27.6-86-ge2ccfdf-0
>>
>>           Candidate: 0.27.6-86-ge2ccfdf-0
>>
>>           Version table:
>>
>>          *** 0.27.6-86-ge2ccfdf-0 0
>>
>>                 500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/
>>         jessie/myth27 armhf Packages
>>
>>                 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>
>>         mythplugins-light:
>>
>>           Installed: 0.27.6-86-ge2ccfdf-0
>>
>>           Candidate: 0.27.6-86-ge2ccfdf-0
>>
>>           Version table:
>>
>>          *** 0.27.6-86-ge2ccfdf-0 0
>>
>>                 500 http://dl.bintray.com/bennettpeter/deb/
>>         jessie/myth27 armhf Packages
>>
>>                 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>>
>>
>>     Sorry if the formatting is messed up.  I'm writing this on
>>     Dreamhost's new webmail thing, and I'm not familiar with its quirks.
>>
>>     ---
>>     Jason M
>>
>>
> 
> MythTV version 0.27 is not officially supported on Raspberry Pi. I do
> not know why the plugins would not work, but I recommend upgrading your
> environment to 0.28, as the Raspberry Pi 0.27 version does not use the
> official MythTV source, and has some bugs.
> Peter
> 

Hi Jason,

As Peter mentioned, MythTV version 0.27 is not officially supported on
Raspberry Pi.

With that being said, if you are not ready to upgrade to MythTV 0.28 and
you are up to trying a pre-compiled tarball that contains many of the
plugins, you might take a look at the following tutorial I wrote:

Setting Up an Inexpensive Raspberry Pi 2 as a Cheap Frontend to MythTV
with MythFrontend
http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-rpi-mythtv-frontend

The tutorial was developed using an RPi2, but should work with an RPi3.

Curtis