[mythtv-users] Problem with Listings Grabber on New Install

[Bill Meek]

On 1/19/22 7:32 AM, Barry Martin wrote:
> 
> Paul:
>> I encountered a problem when it got to configuring:
>>
>> Video sources
>> New video source
>>
>> Listings Grabber only gives the options:
>> Transmitted Guide Only (EIT)
>> No Grabber
> 
> Jim's answer is probably correct: I had the same issue recently. Also, the XMLTV page reference has a warning reminder comment to become the
> mythtv user (I believe 'sudo su mythtv', use 'whomami' to check).  I may have skipped that step in  my recent Backend creation and
> mythfilldatabase did not work properly.  Workaround seems to be to run as a cron job.

Or, you can be sure the added files look like this:

  https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=3480&start=15#p19508

and when running mythfilldatabase from the command line, do it as
user mythtv.


-- 
Bill