[mythtv-users] Capture card not recognized

Klaus Becker colonius at free.fr
Tue Jun 5 06:04:27 UTC 2018


Le lundi 4 juin 2018, 23:03:55 CEST Mark Perkins a écrit :
> On 5 June 2018 6:07:01 am Klaus Becker <colonius at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > In Debian Sid, Mythtv was recently updated to the last version
> > 29.1+fixes20180603.git1777cc4425-dmo1 from http://www.deb-multimedia.org.
> >
> >
> >
> > My capture card is no more recognized:
> >
> >
> >
> > $ mythtv-setup
> > .....
> > Can't open DVB frontend (/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) for
> > /dev/dvb/adapter0/
 frontend0.
> > .....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > However /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 exists:
> >
> >
> >
> > $ ls -l /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> > crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 212, 0 juin   4 21:56 /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The card works. There is a tool (from the vendor) that shows that the
> > card
> > works:
> >
> >
> >
> > $ mediaclient -e
> > **** List of Media Hardware Devices ****
> > device 0: [SkyTV Ultimate 6 2016/Q1]  DVB-S/S2, ANALOG-TV,
> > REMOTE-CONTROL,
> > OSS-AUDIO
> > 
> >  [INFO]:
> >  
> >     STATUS: ACTIVE
> > 
> > ....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mythtv is also installed on another pc and there the card is recognized.
> >
> >
> >
> > I let mythtv-setup delete the card and create a new one, it does not work.
> > It
 says it can't find the type of card and that there is an unknown
> > error.>
> >
> >
> > Also the frontend cannot connect to database although it is running:
> >
> >
> >
> > # systemctl status mythtv-backend
> > ● mythtv-backend.service - LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV server.
> > 
> >   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend; generated)
> >   Active: active (exited) since Mon 2018-06-04 17:46:01 CEST; 4h 33min
> >   ago
> >   
> >     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
> >  
> >  Process: 796 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start (code=exited,
> > 
> > status=0/SUCCESS)
> >
> >
> >
> > juin 04 17:45:58 1stein systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV
> > server....
> > juin 04 17:46:01 1stein mythtv-backend[796]: Starting MythTV server:
> > mythbackend .
> > juin 04 17:46:01 1stein systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV
> > server..
> > juin 04 17:46:49 1stein mythtv-backend[796]: Cannot login to database
> > juin 04 17:46:49 1stein mythtv-backend[796]: Would you like to configure
> > the
 database connection now? [no]
> > juin 04 17:46:49 1stein mythtv-backend[796]: [console is not interactive,
> > using default 'no']
> >
> >
> >
> > I tried without success
> > #dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database
> > and
> > #dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common
> >
> >
> >
> > It does not help.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Bye
> >
> >
> >
> > Klaus
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> 
> Did you manually stop mythbackend before starting mythtv-setup? Often the 
> prompt when running mythtv-setup to get it to stop mythbackend for you will
>  silently fail. Verify there are no myth programs running with something
> like: 
> ps aux | grep myth


Hi,

Mythbackend is running and nothing else:

$ ps aux | grep myth
klaus     2287  0.0  0.0  12904  1064 pts/0    S+   07:53   0:00 grep myth

# systemctl status mythtv-backend
● mythtv-backend.service - LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV server.
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend; generated)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2018-06-05 07:36:46 CEST; 17min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 903 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/mythtv-backend start (code=exited, 
status=0/SUCCESS)

juin 05 07:36:43 1stein systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV 
server....
juin 05 07:36:46 1stein mythtv-backend[903]: Starting MythTV server: 
mythbackend .
juin 05 07:36:46 1stein systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start/Stop the MythTV 
server..

But since a few days, I must start the card driver manually:

$ mediaclient -e
Driver is currently not running, please start it as root
mediaclient --start

So: # mediaclient --start

Then "mediaclient -e" finds the card.

But the setup still cannot find the type of card and there is no connection to 
the backend which is however running.

Klaus






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