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I am extremely frustrated trying to get MythTV to work with the
Hauppage HVR-950Q. As I scan the forums and mailing lists I see
thousands of people with support issues with this product. <br>
<br>
I am trying to run MythTV 0.24 on Ubuntu 11.04 receiving OTA ATSC
signals from rabbit ears. <br>
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<li>When I try to configure the HVR-950Q I am not given the option of
scanning for channels. I have tried setting after setting, and that
option is NEVER enabled.<br>
</li>
<li>When asked what type of television I am looking for I am not
given the option of ATSC, just NTSC. How do I tell it I want to
receive the digital signals that are the only ones transmitted OTA in
North America now.</li>
<li>When I start up the front-end it complains that it cannot find
the back-end based upon the mythtv-setup setting. However when I look
at the setting in the back-end setup it is 127.0.0.1 as one would
expect as the default. How hard is it for the front-end to make that
connection?<br>
</li>
<li>I HATE MythTVs proprietary user interface with its refusal to
cooperate with the window manager or respond to any standard commands.
MythTV just grabs the whole screen and then demands some secret
incantation to release it. After 5 minutes of trying to find a key
sequence that would shut the front-end down I finally gave up and
pressed the power button! I pressed ESC several times until a dialog
popped up with a choice of No to continue or Yes to shut down, but I
could not find any keystroke that would act on the Yes. Is it too much
to ask that the dialog TELL the user what keystrokes to use for a
particular function? Why has nobody ever thrown a Gtk or Kde wrapper
around this abortion?<br>
</li>
<li>Similarly I find it frustrating trying to maneuver through the
various panes of the backend setup using only keystrokes that I have to
guess at because NONE of the panels explain what keystrokes to use for
what purpose.</li>
</ol>
The HVR-950Q works when I test it under Windoze with the WinTV software
that came with it, so the hardware is fine.<br>
<br>
This is just too complicated. I should not have to be a technical
genius to record a few TV shows!<br>
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