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

[Klaas de Waal]

Have a look at the Wiki page about channel scanning
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Channel_Scanning

Klaas.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 21:22, Tom Peters <linuxinside at att.net> wrote:

> 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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