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On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 12:24 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Gerry Freymann <<A HREF="mailto:lists@interpool.ca">lists@interpool.ca</A>> wrote:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Hello!</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> My second Hauppage PVR-150-MCE TV Tuner card just arrived and I was anxious</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> to get it installed in the upstairs frontend/secondary backend so we'd have</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> access to the dish in that location (in addition to the tuner card in the</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> downstairs frontend/master backend).</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> After rebooting, I went into Myth Setup and went to capture cards, new</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> capture card and switched it to MPEG-2 Encoder card. The video device field</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> was already filled in, it detected the card ok.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> For Video Sources... they were already defined.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> On Input connections, I pointed the antenna source to the antenna input,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> and the Dish source to SVideo-1 input.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Seemed easy enough.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Now when I go to the System status screen via the web page I see:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Encoder status</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Encoder 1 is local on mythtv and is not recording.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Encoder 2 is remote on living-room (currently not connected).</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> What's the trick to get it 'connected' and useable?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Is mythbackend running on the second box?</FONT>
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Yes. Here's the output of my ps aux |grep backend command<BR>
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freymann@living-room:~$ ps aux |grep backend<BR>
root 4844 0.0 0.0 3084 812 ? Ss 11:22 0:00 /usr/bin/system-tools-backends<BR>
mythtv 6082 0.0 1.8 175928 19388 ? Ssl 12:05 0:01 /usr/bin/mythbackend --daemon --logfile /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log --pidfile /var/run/mythtv/mythbackend.pid<BR>
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