[mythtv-users] Noob needs help- first time backend setup

[Tom Peters]

Hi y'all, experienced Linux guy here, also absolute noob with MythTV.

Not having any luck getting through the 
mythtv-setup script. So far my Goggle-Fu (Duck 
Duck Go-Fu) has failed me. This is on a Ubuntu 20.04.4 machine.

The pretty green and blue menu comes up, and I 
configured a lot of the "General" options. But 
when I get to the capture cards menu, I'm stuck. 
I added a new capture card, clicked it, and 
selected "HDHomeRun Networked Tuner" from the list.

But I'm at a complete loss as to tell it what my 
HDHomeRun boxes IP addresses are (I have two of 
them, two tuners each). I can't figure out how to 
configure anything about them. Evidently, they 
are identified by some sort of code, which looks 
to me like a MAC address fragment. Fine, that's 
great, how do I tell it to find it?

Exiting the mythtv-setup program, I can run this:
# hdhomerun_config discover
hdhomerun device 101A2E3D found at 172.20.0.118
hdhomerun device 10186C10 found at 172.20.0.119
The hdhomerun_gui tool runs fine, and shows me 
four tuners. I can scan for channels and click 
"View" and watch TV in a VLC window. The Channel 
box shows "us-bcast" and "5" -- this seems to be 
the lowest channel number with a signal on it. 
It's pretty bad in my area. channel "8" is the 
first one that has solid reception.

I have a subscription to Schedules Direct. I 
haven't even tried to set that up yet.

I noodled around a little in the Video sources 
menu, but don't really know what I'm doing. I 
created a source called "Antenna1" with
         no grabber,
         channel freq table=usbcast
         scan frequency=0
         Network ID=-1
         Bouquet-0
         Region ID=0

All I have in Input Connections is one called [ 
HDHOMERUN: ] (none) -> (none) which has in its config:
         Input Name: MPEG2TS
         Display name: Input1
         Video Source: Antenna1
         Use Quick tuning: Never
         . . .
         Starting channel: Please add channels to this source.

Under Channel scan, I go through the dialogs 
there and click "Scan" and the result is "Programmer Error: No Device"
I guess that doesn't surprise me since it can seem to find my HDHR tuners.

Can someone please help my out with this? Assume 
I can find my way around a linux command line 
pretty good and don't know anything about MYthTV.

Many thanks.




THOMAS M. PETERS • LinuxInside at att.net • Senior 
Systems Administrator / Network & Telecom Admin
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