[mythtv-users] how to fix 1 station's channel information?

[James Abernathy]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 1:01 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:18 AM Stephen Worthington <
> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:57:48 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>> >Okay problem solved.   This production backend has not been modified in a
>> >long time, but I do Ubuntu and mythtv updates when they roll out.
>> >
>> >At some point mythtv must have modified permissions so that if you run
>> >mythtv-setup as a normal user, that user must be in the video group.
>> >
>> >Once I did "sudo usermod -aG video jim"  I could run mythtv-setup delete
>> >all my tuners and re-add them, do the Input connections and scan using
>> the
>> >first tuner and problem solved.
>> >
>> >Jim A
>>
>> The need to part of the video group is not at all new.  It has been
>> around as long as I have been using MythTV.
>>
>
> Okay, I just checked my NUC test FE/BE combo. My user 'jim' is not part of
> the video group there either.  But that system only uses HDHomeRun tuners,
> so those must not require you being a part of the video group.
> mythtv-setup was run as user 'jim' on this system.  Below is part of
> /etc/group
> j
> im at pop-os:~$ cat /etc/group | grep mythtv
> dialout:x:20:mythtv
> cdrom:x:24:mythtv
> sudo:x:27:jim,mythtv
> audio:x:29:pulse,mythtv
> video:x:44:mythtv
> mythtv:x:131:jim
> jim at pop-os:~$
>
> Jim A
>

I did find a link that sort of explains it.

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_General

In the permissions section it says:
Permissions
If you are using a device that has a Linux driver, such as a DVB, V4L, HD
PVR, you will need to add your user to the video group, so that the backend
setup can access the video device.

Jim A
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