<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:49 AM Simon Hobson <<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Jim Abernathy <<a href="mailto:jfabernathy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jfabernathy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> So with that in mind, if it were me, I'd build up a complete new system.<br>
Having recently done this myself - going from 0.24.1 to 0.30 - I'd second that advice.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your tips and advice!</div><div><br></div><div>Our mythtv system is much less mission critical than it used to be. A few days of outage isn't a big crisis but we would miss it if I couldn't get it working eventually. It's just a way to record a few recent shows to watch at our convenience.</div><div><br></div><div>I remember how obstinate lirc used to be before the magic of the mythbuntu configuration tools. The idea of resolving the blaster by myself was daunting but I came up with a good solution. We canceled cable completely. Now I don't have a cable box at all and no need for the blaster. I just have the rooftop antenna with an HDHomeRun dual tuner.</div><div><br></div><div>So, I:</div><div><ul><li>updated everything</li><li>upgraded 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS</li><li>added mythbuntu 31 PPA and updated again</li></ul><div>The O/S upgrade went so smoothly I wasn't sure it had happened and had to look up commands to check distro version...</div></div><div>The only thing I noticed that broke was lirc, as expected.</div><div>The mythtv upgrade from 29 to 31 also went super smoothly. The theme stayed the same so I had to get deep into menus to find visible changes. </div><div><br></div><div>Great stuff.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm confident when I get a few minutes I can sort out the lirc remote control using the search tips you've provided here previously. Until then the mythtv app on our AppleTVs works fine.</div><div><br></div><div>One problem that survived all the upgrades is a mysterious mythfrontend video playback artifact. That's a separate thread.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again Jim and Simon.</div></div><div dir="ltr"></div></div>