[mythtv-users] MythTV Light Builds

[Peter Bennett]

On 3/9/22 21:00, James Abernathy wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 8:38 PM Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote:
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>     Yes, I was starting from the GUI. I now switched to a CLI boot,
>     and tried to follow the wiki running
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>     QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs mythfrontend
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>     I get "Cannot Find DRM Device"
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>     Any suggestions?
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>     Peter Bennett wrote on 3/8/22 11:10:
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>>     On 3/8/22 10:55, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
>>>     Peter, thanks!
>>>
>>>     I have an old 3B (not 3B+) that was doing nothing, so I thought
>>>     I would try it.
>>>
>>>     I loaded Buster and then the Mythtv light. No tweaks no MPG
>>>     license. The GUI ran painfully slowly each screen change
>>>     rendered incrementally. The setup video even in standard was
>>>     very choppy.
>>>
>>>     Is there anything I can do to make this usable, or is a 3B just
>>>     totally inadequate.
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>>     It should not be that bad. Did you follow the guide in the wiki?
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>>     https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Setup_on_Raspbian
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>>     and improving performance
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>>     https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#System_Performance
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>>     This version is run from command line so you should set up the
>>     system to start in command line mode.
>>
>>     Peter
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>
> This was discussed on the mythtv forum (link below). But here is a 
> quick summary.
> use this command:
>  QT_QPA_EGLFS_ALWAYS_SET_MODE="1" QT_QPA_PLATFORM=eglfs 
> QT_QPA_EGLFS_KMS_CONFIG=./pi_mythfrontend.json mythfrontend --noupnp 
> --logpath /tmp
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> and create ./pi_mythfrontend.json:
> { "device": "/dev/dri/by-path/platform-gpu-card", "outputs": [ { 
> "name": "HDMI1", "mode": "1920x1080 at 60" } ] }
> https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=4694 
> <https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=4694>
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> Jim A
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Jim

I am no longer using the raspberry pi for watching, and the wiki seems 
to be out of date. Would you like to update the wiki to the latest 
information? Let me know if you want to do that and I can set you up 
with a user id.

Peter
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