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Hi Klaus!<br>
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Your "the error seems to be 'No channels are configured to use
grabber'" is probably correct. Of course the thing is figuring out
where. I think your "the grabber" is going to be the German
equivalent of here in the U.S. SchedulesDirect. I'll admit to being
a little more confused as it appears your e-mail in French-based and
the error messages are partially in French.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I got a digital antenna and I want to watch german televison. I have a
dreambox that works, but it does not work with MythTV.
Channel scan works, but I cannot regard televison. There is a problem with
mythfilldatabase. I telles me:</pre>
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I think you're confusing two different things, and don't get
worried: we all were newbies and had to learn. I'm an amateur and
answering to try to be able to bridge some of the more complex and
detailed answers the others will respond with. "Channel scan" is
for watching Live TV and I don't think has anything to do your
mythfilldatabase problem. ...Well, maybe.<br>
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Mythfilldatabase can obtain its information two ways. One is from
"EIT", which is the programming information provided by the TV
stations in their live over-the-air signal. Here in the U.S.
sometimes data for only the next three or four hours, sometimes for
a period of time up to the next day or two (24 to 48 hours). The
other way to obtain programming data is via SchedulesDirect, though
that's U.S.-only, no idea what the European version is.<br>
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One quirk (oddity) I noticed when I was playing here with EIT is
there is a setting (configuration) which will have the tuner do
nothing but detect the EIT data; it won't be able to be used as a
tuner. Elsewhere in MythTV that tuner will always appear as
'busy'. (This paragraph does and does not have anything to do with
your current problem; I'm just trying to point out a potential
problem.)<br>
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<pre wrap="">$ mythfilldatabase
2018-03-03 12:40:42.466101 C mythfilldatabase version: fixes/0.28
[8238e839c9] <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.mythtv.org">www.mythtv.org</a>
2018-03-03 12:40:42.466118 C Qt version: compile: 5.7.1, runtime: 5.7.1
2018-03-03 12:40:42.466123 N Enabled verbose msgs: general</pre>
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Somewhat how to read these things: year - month - date
time_to_ididy-bitty_seconds. Next column is more helpful when
looking for errors: "C" I think is 'comment', 'N' for
'notification', "I" for "information'. 'W; for 'warning', "E" for
'error'.<br>
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<pre wrap="">2018-03-03 12:40:42.478733 I Assumed character encoding: fr_FR.utf8
2018-03-03 12:40:42.478751 W This application expects to be running a locale
that specifies a UTF-8 codeset, and many features may behave improperly with
your current language settings. Please set the LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE, and LANG
variable(s) in the environment in which this program is executed to include a
UTF-8 codeset (such as 'en_US.UTF-8').</pre>
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Umm, the 'warning' line doesn't like something - I have no idea
what.<br>
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<pre wrap="">2018-03-03 12:40:42.479415 N Empty LocalHostName.
2018-03-03 12:40:42.479434 I Using localhost value of 2stein</pre>
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Again a mistake someplace but the system is correcting itself.<br>
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<pre wrap="">2018-03-03 12:40:42.505768 I Updating source #1 (Astra) with grabber
tv_grab_eu_egon
2018-03-03 12:40:42.505918 I No channels are configured to use grabber.</pre>
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I think this is the start of the mythfilldatabase error you are
having. My guess is "tv_grab_eu_egon" is the equivalent of my
"SchedulesDirect" and it (*egon) has to be configured to which TV
stations you want. You will need to go to the *egon website, login,
select where you are, and then select/deselect the available TV
channels.<br>
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<pre wrap="">The error seems to be "No channels are configured to use grabber."
So what can I do ? I searched a lot on the web without finding a solution.
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<p>That is my guess also. Hopefully between my basic answers and
the more detailed answers of the others who know their stuff you
can start recording your German TV soon!</p>
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<p>Barry<br>
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