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<font size=3>At 03:27 PM 3/10/2022, Scott Theisen wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 3/10/22 15:20, Tom Peters
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi y'all, experienced Linux guy
here, also absolute noob with MythTV.<br><br>
But I'm at a complete loss as to tell it what my HDHomeRun boxes IP
addresses are (I have two of them, two tuners each). I can't figure out
how to configure anything about them. Evidently, they are identified by
some sort of code, which looks to me like a MAC address fragment. Fine,
that's great, how do I tell it to find it? </blockquote><br>
In the screen with New Capture card and selected HDHomeRun Networked
Tuner, you need to hit the *right arrow key* to enter the next screen,
which should list your devices. There is a little arrow on the
right side of the selection as a hint. MythTV's UI is mostly
keyboard based, with some partial mouse support.</font></blockquote><br>
Ding! Ding! Ding! That was the secret sauce. I tried clicking the little
rightwards-pointing arrow on the screen, but it just took me to the
"Choose card type" dialog again. Pressing the actual
right-arrow key on the keyboard it what I needed. <br><br>
<font size=3>Thanks so much for showing me the secret handshake to get
into the club.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">You need to add one device per
tuner, i.e. two per device in your case.</font></blockquote><br>
Slightly puzzled by that. What do you mean by "device" in this
context?<br><br>
Each HDHR box has a pair of tuners. Do I need to add four (something) in
my case? Two (something) for each (other something)? Confused by the
terminology here. <br><br>
I <b>think </b>that I have to add two <b>Capture Cards</b>, one for each
HDHR box. Right??? <br><br>
Or should I use a single card? In the setup for each card, it asks
"Use 172.20.0.118?" <u>and</u> "Use 172.20.0.119?" --
should I only add one capture card and allow it to use both boxes?
<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>See the wiki
<a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_Capture_Cards#Card_type:_HDHomeRun_networked_tuner">
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_Capture_Cards#Card_type:_HDHomeRun_networked_tuner</a>
(some pages are more up to date than others,
<a href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Silicondust_HDHomeRun_setup">
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Silicondust_HDHomeRun_setup</a> is less up to
date than the user manual page, for example.)<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><br>
Exiting the mythtv-setup program, I can run this:
<dl>
<dd># hdhomerun_config discover
<dd>hdhomerun device 101A2E3D found at 172.20.0.118
<dd>hdhomerun device 10186C10 found at 172.20.0.119
</dl>The hdhomerun_gui tool runs fine, and shows me four tuners. I can
scan for channels and click "View" and watch TV in a VLC
window. The Channel box shows "us-bcast" and "5" --
this seems to be the lowest channel number with a signal on it. It's
pretty bad in my area. channel "8" is the first one that has
solid reception. </blockquote><br>
There are some gotchas with the networks tuners, in that, if MythTV can't
find them on startup, it won't connect even once they are
available.<br><br>
I have worked around that using the following script:<br>
```<br>
#!/bin/bash<br>
# run loop on startup to determine when the tuner becomes
available<br><br>
LOG="/tmp/hdhomerun_config.out"<br><br>
for i in $(seq 30); do<br>
   hdhomerun_config discover 2>&1 >> $LOG<br>
   if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then<br>
       echo "HD Homerun is up ($(date)).Â
Iteration " $i >> $LOG<br>
       exit 0<br>
   fi<br>
   sleep 2<br>
done<br><br>
echo "Couldn't see the HD homerun in 30 seconds!" >>
$LOG<br>
exit 1<br>
```<br><br>
and adding that as a prerequisite service for
mythbackend.service.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><br>
I have a subscription to Schedules Direct. I haven't even tried to set
that up yet. <br><br>
I noodled around a little in the Video sources menu, but don't really
know what I'm doing. I created a source called "Antenna1" with
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>no
grabber, <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>channel
freq table=usbcast<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>scan
frequency=0<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Network
ID=-1<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>
Bouquet-0<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Region
ID=0<br><br>
All I have in Input Connections is one called [ HDHOMERUN: ] (none) ->
(none) which has in its config: <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Input
Name: MPEG2TS<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Display
name: Input1<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Video
Source: Antenna1<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Use Quick
tuning: Never<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>. . .
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Starting
channel: Please add channels to this source.<br><br>
Under Channel scan, I go through the dialogs there and click
"Scan" and the result is "Programmer Error: No
Device" </blockquote><br>
You should only need to scan once for all the tuners, assuming they're
using the same antenna.<br><br>
Regards,<br><br>
Scott<br><br>
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