<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:29 PM, scram69 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scram69@gmail.com">scram69@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, ivo welch<<a href="mailto:ivowel@gmail.com">ivowel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> ok, my main goal is to get TV watching to work first. First, how do I get<br>
> MythTV to detect the channels that it can tune to?<br>
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</div>AFAIK, it doesn't for digital (i.e. the signal going into an HDHR in<br>
the US). You have to set them up manually. I use phpmyadmin to<br>
access the database.<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>The only thing you should have to manually add is the XMLTVID, so that running mythfilldatabase will be able to get the right channel listings mapped to the right frequencies. The MythTV wiki has detailed examples of this, but basically, here are the steps:<br>
<br>1) Add the HDHR as a tuner in mythtv-setup<br>2) Create a listings source, and set it to "no grabber"<br>3) Associate the HDHR with the empty listings source, and click the button that says "scan for channels." Make sure you choose the appropriate scan type (i.e. broadcast, high cable, etc.) for whatever you attached to the HDHR.<br>
4) Once it finds the channels, exit mythtv-setup. Don't yet run mythfilldatase.<br>5) Start the backend.<br>6) Get the XMLTV ID for each of the channels that were found through the scan. If you're in the US, you'll get these IDs from Schedules Direct (those from outside the U.S. are far more knowledgeable than I on how to get listings). You can use phpmyadmin as the previous responder did to enter them directly into the DB; I've always found it's much easier, however, to use MythWeb's channel editor (it shows all the channels that the HDHR found, and lets you paste in the XMLTV ID, type in the call number, the virtual channel number, etc. without being overwhelmed by some of the DB fields like "atsc major," etc.)<br>
7) Shut down the backend, start up mythtv-setup again, and change your listings source that earlier said "no grabber" to reflect where you'll be getting your listings data from.<br>8) Exit mythtv-setup. NOW run mythfilldatabse<br>
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> second, when I start the frontend and I just want to watch TV, nothing<br>
> happens. it waits a few secs, then blinks briefly, then I am again at the<br>
> frontend view:<br>
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</div>I've never been able to get live TV to work on the OS X frontend. If<br>
live TV is a priority, look to a linux frontend.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I second this. OS X makes a great remote frontend for recorded content, and is a passable backend for recordings, but liveTV functionality is a whole other story.<br><br>Jarom<br></div></div><br>