[mythtv-users] Watching TV through a frontend - how is it supposed to work?

[William Munson]

Alan Chandler wrote:
> I have now got a backend and frontend installed on different machines.
>
> The menus etc seem to work, and I think I am talking to the backend, because I 
> can get an (albeit empty) program guide for the channels I have set up.
>
> Attempting to Select the Watch TV menu, the screen goes blank for a few 
> seconds and I then get thrown back at the point where I can select that menu.
>
> In the log running in the terminal window from whence I started it, I get lots 
> of lines like this
>
> 2006-09-06 23:12:51.009 Unexpected response to MYTH_PROTO_VERSION:
>
> but also
>
> 2006-09-06 23:12:51.013 TV: Attempting to change from None to None
>
> Would could be going wrong, and how can I fix it?
>
>   

It would appear that you have 2 different (incompatible) versions of 
mythtv running. The protcol version is specific to a release. Perhaps a 
0.19 and a 0.19-fixes mixup? The empty program guide is also a symptom 
of the same issue.