[mythtv-users] SD - Can't retrieve channels from grabber source

Donald J. Maddox dmaddox099 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 9 19:19:38 UTC 2007


Daniel Kristjansson wrote:

>On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 14:53 -0400, Donald J. Maddox wrote:
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>>Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 14:32 -0400, Donald J. Maddox wrote:
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>>>>I subscribed to SD today, and had no problem retrieving my channel 
>>>>lineups - but when I try to 'get channels from grabber source' it seems 
>>>>to get the channels, but doesn't actually add them to the video 
>>>>source...  When I say it seems to work, I mean I see this in the output 
>>>>if I run mythtvsetup from a commandline (but no channels get added):
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>>>Are you using firewire? There was a bug in the 0.20.2 release that
>>>prevents channels from being added to a firewire connected source.
>>>The workaround is to disconnect the source from the firewire card
>>>in input connections and run mythfilldatabase on the command line.
>>>Alternatively you can upgrade to the latest and greatest 0.20-fixes
>>>which has a fix for this bug as of 3 days ago.
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>>Yes, I am using firewire...  I'll try what you say - but won't I still 
>>need to be able to add channels to the firewire tuner after I run 
>>mythfilldatabase?
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>The 0.20.2 release mythfilldatabase will fill the channels in for a
>disconnected Schedules Direct source; 0.20-fixes won't, but it also
>doesn't exhibit this bug.
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>-- Daniel
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Sorry to be a pain, but I don't understand...  I can run 
mythfilldatabase with the firewire source connected or disconnected to 
the listings source, and the mythfilldatabase succeeds just fine - but 
then I still have a firewire tuner with no associated channels, no?



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