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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/22 15:20, Tom Peters wrote:<br>
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Hi y'all, experienced Linux guy here, also absolute noob with
MythTV.<br>
<br>
Not having any luck getting through the mythtv-setup script. So
far my
Goggle-Fu (Duck Duck Go-Fu) has failed me. This is on a Ubuntu
20.04.4
machine.<br>
<br>
The pretty green and blue menu comes up, and I configured a lot of
the
"General" options. But when I get to the capture cards menu,
I'm stuck. I added a new capture card, clicked it, and selected
"HDHomeRun Networked Tuner" from the list. <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? <br>
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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.<br>
<br>
You need to add one device per tuner, i.e. two per device in your
case.<br>
<br>
See the wiki
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" 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>
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cite="mid:340424337.1246093.1646943638810@att.net"><br>
Exiting the mythtv-setup program, I can run this:
<dl>
<dd># hdhomerun_config discover
</dd>
<dd>hdhomerun device 101A2E3D found at 172.20.0.118
</dd>
<dd>hdhomerun device 10186C10 found at 172.20.0.119
</dd>
</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. <br>
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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)). 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>
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cite="mid:340424337.1246093.1646943638810@att.net"><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" <br>
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<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>
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