[mythtv-users] Cannot watch Live TV

Nicolas Antonio Corrarello ncorrare at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 20:56:42 UTC 2009


I had the same issue, You need to set up correctly the audio input device:

I recommend you to load the snd modules for oss for you card, and then to
set up /dev/dspX as your audio input device.

2009/9/30 Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

> On 09/30/2009 04:31 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a “working” install of MythTV 0.21 on Fedora 11. Well, it is
>> working to the extent that I have successfully scanned the Freeview data
>> (again today), giving me what looks a sensible Channel table. However, when
>> I try to select the “Watch TV” option in MythFrontend, I get a null
>> response, and the output in the mythbackend.log is as follows:-
>>
>> 2009-09-30 21:17:44.035 TVRec(4): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>>
>> 2009-09-30 21:17:44.042 GetChannelData() failed because it could not
>>
>> find channel number 'Please add' in DB for source '1'.
>>
>>  ...
>
>>
>> Can anyone tell me from the log what may be wrong with my setup?
>>
>> When I look at the Channel table in Mythconverg, every record has a ‘1’ in
>> the source field.
>>
>>
> mythtv-setup, Input Connections, then for /each/ defined input, modify
> Starting Channel. Note, though, that since the value stored in the DB is,
> "'Please add" (the truncated to fit in the column version of "Please add
> channels to this source"), you'll likely need to, er, add channels to the
> source.
>
> See, also, the video sources portion of:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034
>
> Mike
>
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