<html><head><base href="x-msg://55/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 28, 2013, at 7:23 AM, Yianni wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; "><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div><br>> Hi Thomas<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> I did try as you suggest and logged in as mythtv. And no, it does not work, all tuners are back to in use.<br>> So it seems this is permissions of some sort? Checked on the tuners in the bin/dvb and compared them against a friends system.<br>> They both have the same rights.<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> Paul<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I think the user running mythbackend must be a member of the video group. Check the group membership for mythtv with:<br>$ groups mythtv<br><br>If video isn't in the returned list, you can add it with:<br>sudo useradd -G video mythtv<code><br><br>Good luck,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>Yianni.<br></code><code><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); "></span></code></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>I haven't read this whole thread, but I'm wondering if it is a timing issue with starting of the backend versus a permissions issue. With the Ceton cards, if the backend starts before the cards are completely active, we get the exact same thing: tuners are in use. I found this out and made some thread comments several months back, so maybe this will help you.</div><div><br></div><div>Best of luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><br></body></html>