<div dir="ltr">I have never seen an option to "close the front end". If I get by some error messages I can toggle up or down through settings, but eventually it ends up going grey on me.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Leo Butler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leo.butler@member.fsf.org" target="_blank">leo.butler@member.fsf.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 13:55:46 -0400<br>
From: Daryl McDonald <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>><br>
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I installed a fresh Mythbuntu in a 700 GB partition/extension on my drive,<br>
but every time I boot to it I only get the front end.<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Hi Daryl, Let me say that I share your pain. In Jan-Feb, I bought some<br>
hardware for a mythtv server (to be run in the basement, serving as an<br>
nfs/samba fileserver, too). I installed mythbunutu 12.04.2 and then<br>
spent ages pulling out my hair. My problem? In retrospect, I didn't<br>
follow the guides carefully enough. The obstacle in my case was that I<br>
did not have channel listings available. I only was able to get myth<br>
working when I set up an account at schedulesdirect<br>
(<a href="http://www.schedulesdirect.org/" target="_blank">http://www.schedulesdirect.org/</a>) and configured the backend to use<br>
it. I would suggest you set up a trial account before continuing.<br>
<br>
Then, try the following on your mythbunutu box:<br>
-close the mythfrontend<br>
-under the Applications on the desktop, select System -> Mythtv Backend Setup<br>
-if prompted, close any running mythbackends<br>
<br>
Now, the rest is really just from the manual (<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:MythTV_structure" target="_blank">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User_Manual:MythTV_structure</a>).<br>
When faced with the setup menu,<br>
<br>
-you should be able to leave the general settings as-is since your<br>
frontend will be running on the same machine<br>
-add your capture cards (*)<br>
-add the schedulesdirect guide data to video sources<br>
-configure your input sources from the capture cards and guide data<br>
-you should be able to leave the rest of the settings unchanged, but<br>
if you have done things right, your guide data should be visible in the<br>
channel editor.<br>
<br>
Once completed, exit the setup and let mythfilldatabase be run. Once<br>
that completes, go back to the Applications tab and select Multimedia<br>
-> MythTV Frontend. You should be able to view the tv listings and<br>
play live tv.<br>
<br>
If you run into problems, please do tell us what you have tried and<br>
what the results have been.<br>
<br>
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(*) It may be wise to only add 1 capture card to start. And one<br>
physical card may provide more than one capture card.<br>
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