[mythtv] MythTV setup quirks

[Isaac Richards]

On Monday 18 November 2002 11:04 am, Dan Schwarz wrote:
> Ok, so now I've got a supported TV tuner card (WinTV), tested & working
> with xawtv, and it's finally time to get MythTV running.
> I'm using the 0.7 tarball (latest CVS segfaults when running setup, and
> I have a Pentium III so I know it supports the Pentium Pro instruction
> set!)

That's been fixed for about 12 hours now =)

> Couple of quirks
>
> 1) For some reason the setup program did not associate the Television
> cardinput on the WinTV with the "default" videosource.  So when I start
> mythfrontend, I get:  "default is defined, but isn't attached to a
> cardinput."  This should have been handled by selectSource(...) in
> setup.  I don't remember seeing the selectSource prompt text. Maybe I
> just zoned out and missed that prompt?  Anyone else had this problem?

You already found the reason for this..

> I'll add the row manually.  I'd re-run setup but it is a major pain to
> re-key in IDs for the 90+ cable channels in my area.
>
> Which leads me to quirk #2.
>
> 2) Why the need to enter in unique IDs for every single channel? These
> lines in mythfilldatabase main.cpp indicate that it's just a way to
> identify which channels to keep or skip in the listings,

Because it's the internal ID that is used to identify the channel?

> This is tedious and error-prone. As a cable TV subscriber the majority
> of channels listed by xmltv ARE available to me, therefore I'd prefer
> the default to be "keep", not "skip".
>
> It seems reasonable to me to remove the  mythfilldatabase --manual
> requirement.  Automatically assign a default unique ID for every channel
> (so you initially have listings for every channel.)  Then have an option
> to go back and remove unused channels, as a completely optional step.
> Perhaps integrated into the EPG ("remove this channel" option?)  How
> many people really have a need to tweak the channel names and fine tune
> settings on the first setup?  Making this completely automatic would be
> a friendlier setup.

You only need to run mythfilldatabase --manual if you're using one of the 
xmltv grabbers listed in the final output text of setup.

Isaac