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Hi Klaus!<br>
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<pre wrap="">My native language is german, but I live in France since a long time.</pre>
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OK -- thanks for that explanation -- makes things a little clearer
to me. Your English is good -- I will sometimes add in another word
to better define a word or phrase to attempt to avoid confusion.<br>
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<pre wrap="">So if I understand you well, regarding live tv should be possible even if
there is a problem with mythfilldatabase ?
In this case I will first try to get live tv working, and than recording.</pre>
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I believe yes: one should not need to have mythfilldatabase working
in order to have Live TV working. Information on the Live TV
programme will be missing: the summary of the show. ...Old tagline
joke: "7:30 Bewitched. Tabitha gets carsick and turns Darrin into
a barf bag". Sorry - couldn't resist!<br>
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Not sure if getting Live TV to work first is the way to go. Isn't
necessarily wrong, just backwards to my way of using MythTV. OTOH
(on the other hand) if Live TV works you know your tuners are
working and so when you do work on the mythfilldatabase portion of
the project you know you are receiving the TV signal.<br>
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.epgdata.com/">http://www.epgdata.com/</a> is commercial and this should not be necessary. I also
have a dreambox and it works without any commercial service. (I want to
replace the dreambox by mythtv because the box is buggy).
I tried a channel scan with a free grabber for Europe, but the result is the
same: the scan works, I get a liste of hundreds of channels, but I cannot
regard any.</pre>
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It looks like EPGData.com is the equivalent of SchedulesDirect here
in the U.S. -- 17.95 Euro, specifically mentions MythTV. The 'Data
Coverage' tab lists start, end, etc. of the shows. The 'List of
Channels' displays numerous stations -- I have no idea if all are
available off-the-air. (I didn't see <u>TV Paprika</u> listed!)<br>
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The 'free grabber' might also work. EPGData says will list up to 14
days of information; SchedulesDirect is similar. My guess is the
Dreambox obtains its scheduling data either from Dreambox (the
company) itself or possibly OTA from the TV stations directly. Here
I'm getting DreamBox as learning software for mathematics. U.S. vs.
Europe stuff again. I'm going to assume your DreamBox is similar to
TiVo here.<br>
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It seems you are having a problem connecting (configuring) EPGData
or the free grabber to your MythTV. I don't know if this will
lessen or increase the confusion but have you seen Curtis Gekak's
Guide:
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%"><font size="-2"
face="DejaVu Sans, sans-serif"><font style="font-size: 11pt"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-install-mythbuntu1404">http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-install-mythbuntu1404</a></font></font></p>
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<font size="2"><font face="DejaVu Sans, sans-serif">(Good Grief!
Tried to make that smaller. That's 'tiny' font size!! - I hate
to see what 'large' is!!) Yes, for version 14.04; no idea if a
more current version (16.x, 17.x). If for whatever reason you
are unable to find/download it let me know and I will upload my
copy to you (though has notes for my specific system embedded).
An <i>excellent</i> guide!! (Thank you, Curtis!!)</font></font><br>
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<pre wrap="">I do not really understand if a grabber is necessary to watch tv. The french
mythtv site recommands to choose no grabber in setup.
My channel list is at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://supplement.xmltv.org/tv_grab_eu_epgdata/channel_ids">http://supplement.xmltv.org/tv_grab_eu_epgdata/channel_ids</a>
When I choose "watch tv", nothing happens. When I try to record tv, I see the
channel list, but impossible to watch or record any.</pre>
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As I said above, I don't think a grabber is necessary to watch Live
TV but will give give additional information. Even without the
grabber I think you should be able to do manual recording within
MythTV ==> record from 1900 to 2000 on Channel 14, just like one
did with a VCR. Oh poo: that reminded me of something else but it
should have been resolved (taken care of) when you did the MythTV
Channel Scan step. Here in the U.S. we use ATSC, Europe I believe
uses PAL. Its some sort of a format setting. The other thing is
here in the U.S. we 'change/alter' the channel numbers. Locally
KWQC (call sign) says it's Channel 6 but really is transmitting on
UHF Channel 17. When they were an analog (NTSC format) station they
were on VHF Channel 6; with digital (ATSC format) they moved/got
moved to UHF Channel 17 but because 'everybody' watches "Channel 6"
instead of watching "KWQC". ...Hope not too confusing. Pretty
sure the MythTV Channel Scan step takes care of this: mine did:
makes the tuner 'look' at Ch. 17 but lets me think I'm looking at
Ch. 6.1.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I started mythfrontend in a shell and I have the error message
"It appears that your backend may be misconfigured. Check your backend logs
to determine whether your inputs, lineups, channels, or storage configuration
are reporting errors. This issue is commonly caused by failing to complete
all setup steps properly. You may wish to review the documentation for
mythtv-setup."
I rebegan mythtv-setup step for step, I cannot see what is wrong.
I shall review the documentation, but perhaps you have an idea about the
mistake ?
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<chuckle> I have ideas, just don't know if I'm guessing
right. I would follow Curtis Gedak's guide (the big print link,
above). I would guess (because I haven't done it this way) is if
your system is able to display Live TV then the configuration is
correct and you just need to add a grabber, whether EIT from the
stations themselves or the free one or EPGData.<br>
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...Curtis's guide: you want to pay extra attention to "Section X.
Configure MythTV Backend". Might be able to do a bit of a
shortcut by looking at '6. Channel Editor" If no channels are
displayed here definitely one of the previous steps is incorrect.
(And my reference to Channel 6 KWQC has nothing to do with this Step
6. Channel Editor. Just happens the two are the same number.)<br>
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OK, good luck. Read what the others have to say also as they are a
lot more expert than I am.<br>
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Barry<br>
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