[mythtv-users] Hello, and a question about PHP version

[John Pilkington]

On 21/07/18 22:03, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just signed up, because I recently bought a TBS6205 card and am
> trying to set up mythtv to use it. I use openSUSE, currently Leap 15.0,
> which has been a bit of a struggle first to get the card working (I was
> on Leap 42.3, which won't compile v4l) and now to get mythtv working, so
> I'm hoping I may find some more knowledgeable people here. Oh, I'm in
> the UK.
> 
> I'm in the middle of trying to use mthtv-setup to get my backend going
> (I plan to use Kodi on a Fire TV as the frontend eventually) and am
> currently stuck with error messages about the tuners being programmed
> to start on channel 3 which does not exist. I don't understand what
> that means really, nor how to fix it. Oh, and is there any way to run
> mthtv-setup in a window instead of fullscreen? It's very annoying to
> have to exit from it every time I want to look something up on the web
> or inspect my filesystem or whatever
'mythtv-setup -w --geometry 1024x576+64+64'  should work.  If later you 
set up a windowed frontend, setup will probably be windowed too.

See 'mythtv-setup --help'  for a bit more info.  I'll leave your other 
questions for someone else.

John P

> 
> But my reason for posting at this time is actually to do with mythweb.
> I tried to install v0.28 from packman, but when I do I see a dependency
> error saying that nothing provides apache2-mod_php5. Now I see that
> currently installed on my system is apache2-mod_php7 and I also see at
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12588 that the problem was
> encountered three years ago and was fixed in mythweb two years ago
> apparently in v0.27. So 0.28 should be OK.
> 
> So I'm trying to understand what has happened and if there's any way to
> get mythweb to work.
> 
> TIA, Dave