[mythtv-users] Selecting "Watch TV" exits right away?

[Igor Chudov]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:52:27AM -0800, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Igor Chudov wrote:
>
>> Nothing useful shows up in /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log.
>
> I bet there is something useful there.
>
>> mythtv-status shows
>>
>> kinozal:tv:~==>mythtv-status
>> QDateTime::fromString: Parameter out of range
>>
>> MythTV status for localhost
>> ===========================
>> Status...........: Wed Jan 14 2009, 9:16 AM
>> Total Disk Space.: Total space is 36,382 MB, with 9,205 MB used  
>> (25.3%)
>> Next Recording In: Never
>> Guide Data.......: No guide data!
>>
>> Any idea why selecting "Watch TV" returns me right back to the main
>> menu?
>
> Yes. The line right above this one.
> "No guide data!"
>
> Did you scan for channels? Did you turn in EIT or are otherwise getting 
> guide data from some other source (like Schedules Direct or some other 
> xmltv grabber script)?

Brad, I think that you hit the nail squarely on the head. I have not
yet subscribed to schedules-direct (which I will do) and my attempts
to use other grabbers, like directv, failed. So I will subscribe to
schedules-direct and will try again tonight. 

Thanks a lot

i