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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/12/17 19:22, UB40D wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 December 2017 at 02:34, UB40D <span
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<div class="gmail_extra">I can' t make much sense of
either, but this error in the backend seems damning:
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<div class="gmail_extra">DiSEqCDevTree: No root
device tree node!</div>
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<div>What should I do about it?</div>
<div>It looks like I'm almost there...</div>
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<div>Success!</div>
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<div>Having some sleep helps, but mostly it's down to voodoo
I'm afraid.</div>
<div>It' s not 100% working yet but the good news is I am
now able to get a TV signal (some of the time) and I'm
even trying my first recording with the redone box as we
speak.</div>
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<div>What did I do? I googled a bit for the error message
above and found hints that it was often due to incorrect
settings for LNB. So I went into mythtv-setup / capture
cards, checked the diseq and sure enough it was listed as
disconnected. Grrr! When I know for sure I had set it to
LNB before, and saved. This is just voodoo. Anyway,
patience. I re-entered the LNB settings (mostly defaults)
for both adapters. Saved. Started the frontend. Watch TV.
Nothing. Damn. I thought I was so close.<br>
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<div>Stopped the backend. Restarted it from a terminal to
see the log. Started the frontend from a terminal to see
its log too. Watch TV. And suddenly I got a picture!
Wow!!! Voodoo as to why it now worked and not before.</div>
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<div>Went back into mythtv-setup to check that LNB was still
there (you never know). It was. Did mythfilldatabase on
the way out. Didn' t work. Fiddled with things a bit more.
Did mythfilldatabase by hand from the command line, and it
worked. Restarted the frontend from the usual icon (not
command line). SOME of the time "watch tv" did nothing,
some other times it showed a picture. Scheduled a
recording. It did start to record and I could view the
started recording. Big success. It' s still recordingl
that first movie (Pixar' s planes BTW, which I was hoping
to see for the first time, yay) while I'm writing this<br>
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<div>Meanwhile, reattempted "watch tv" (with recording in
progress) and it failed, meaning it briefly said "please
wait" and then nothing happened. Several times. Really
voodoo here. Once the recording finishes I'll restart
frontend and backend from terminal windows to look at the
logs again and try to nail it down.</div>
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<div>Anyway MAJOR PROGRESS since yesterday. Very many thanks
to all in this thread.<br>
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Sometimes LiveTV fails to tune to a channel when the starting
channel has got out of step (if mythtv has trouble tuning it
defaults to channel 3, which unless you have changed channel numbers
using mythweb, or the channel editor will not exist in Freesat
numbering from a channel scan).<br>
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If you go into Program Guide from the main menu, use the up/down
arrow keys to move to a channel and press menu key (default m) you
then get a pop up with some entries amongst which is something like
"watch this channel" just select this and it should tune to the
channel, this will update the starting channel.<br>
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Mike<br>
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