[mythtv-users] Some successes...EPG, IR Remote and making it work

Wed Feb 8 07:05:23 UTC 2012

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:26 PM, David Sims <simsdw56 at comcast.net> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nick Rout
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:47 PM
> To: Discussion about MythTV
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Some successes...EPG, IR Remote and making it
> work
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:43 AM, David Sims <simsdw56 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Dear MythTV Community,
>>
>> I have some successes to share with my experimenting on MythTV...
>>
>> 1) Switched over to using Schedules Direct for the EPG.  Did not want to
> do
>> this as all I needed was a temporary service while I play around with
>> MythTV.  Two weeks is not long enough when only playing with this stuff on
>> the weekends and after my full time job.  May need to work on this again a
>> little bit later.  Also did not want to violate any licensing agreements.
>>
>> 2) Got the lircd.conf and hardware.conf files corrected last night and the
>> utility (irw) now shows the key presses on my TIVO remote from Nero's
> liquid
>> TV.
>> The answer was in the hardware.conf file settings.  Needed to change the
>> LOAD_MODULES=true to LOAD_MODULES=false!  I have a Hauppauge 750Q tuner
> and
>> it does not need the kernel modules loaded in order to work.
>
> I can't see a 750Q on their website, is it a 950Q?
>
> if so is it set up for analogue or digital?
>
>>
>> 3) I scheduled a program to record and it seems to have done that
> recording.
>> At least I have a 93 MB .nuv file in my videos directory.
>
> Well you could try watching it with mplayer, seeing you seem to have
> that working.
>
> However a digital tuner will NOT produce .nuv files, not sure what the
> analogue side of the card will produce as I left analogue behind years
> ago.
>
>> Not sure exactly
>> how to go about watching this recording as the rest of the MythFrontEnd
> does
>> not seem to work for me.  I can use mplayer to watch live tv but this has
> to
>> have the MythBackEnd shutdown when using.  Seems that I have a lot of the
>> background pieces working now but the Front End is still being a little
>> elusive.  Anyone have suggestions on this?
>
> yes:
>
> 1. work your way through the installation, including ALL pages in
> mythtv-setup (except system events which you don't need)
>
> 2. when asking for help give us some more info. log files. distro.
> what you are trying to tune to (the 950Q, if thats what you have) does
> (a)NTSC Analog Cable, Over the Air TV
> (b)ATSC Digital Over the Air HDTV
> (c)Clear QAM Digital Cable TV
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> Interesting responses.  Thank you.
>
> Yep, typo'd the tuner it is a Hauppauge HVR950Q.
> TV format is listed as NTSC and I am using an OTA antenna for reception.
> It has been my understanding that analogue is no longer being broadcast by
> any of the US stations anymore because they all went to digital.
> Thus my thinking that analogue is not even an option.

NTSC=analogue, ATSC=digital

>
> My distro is:
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 11.10
> Release:        11.10
> Codename:       oneiric

OK, did you change the default paths for storage groups or anything like that?

>
> I really do not have much in terms of log files to share on this.
> Here is what I think might be pertinent from the back end log:
>
> 2012-02-06 21:15:20.184 TVRec(7): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2012-02-06 21:15:20.210 TVRec(7): HW Tuner: 7->7
> 2012-02-06 21:15:20.263 LoadFromScheduler(): Error, called from backend.
> 2012-02-06 21:15:20.266 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space:
> 2.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.189 MainServer::ANN Playback
> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.204 adding: ******** as a client (events: 0)
> 2012-02-06 21:15:28.347 TVRec(7): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
> 2012-02-06 21:15:28.428 MainServer, Warning: Unknown socket closing
> MythSocket(0x7f13e4040e20)
> 2012-02-06 21:15:28.454 MythSocket(7f13e4040e20:-1): writeStringList: Error,
> socket went unconnected.
>                        We wrote 0 of 10 bytes with 1 errors
> 2012-02-06 21:15:28.575 Channel(/dev/video0) Error:
> InitPictureAttribute(brightness): failed to query controls.
>                        eno: Bad file descriptor (9)
>
> And here is what I think might be pertinent from the front end log:
>
> 2012-02-06 21:15:20.132 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2012-02-06 21:15:20.132 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 192.168.8.28:6543
>  (try 1 of 1)
> 2012-02-06 21:15:20.132 Using protocol version 63
> 2012-02-06 21:15:20.183 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- begin
> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.183 MythSocket(168a1b0:26): readStringList: Error, timed
> out after 7
> 000 ms.
> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.183 RemoteEncoder::SendReceiveStringList(): No response.
> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.183 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- end
> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.188 We have a
> playbackURL(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1005_20120206211520
> .nuv) & cardtype(DUMMY)

You have set your card up as a dummy card by the look of it, instead
of as a digital TV card.

Also a .nuv file would only be looked for if it was an analogue card,
as far as I know.

> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.188 We have a RingBuffer
> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.188 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
> 192.168.8.28:6543
>  (try 1 of 1)
> 2012-02-06 21:15:27.188 Using protocol version 63
> 2012-02-06 21:16:07.193 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting for
> recorder to s
> tart
> 2012-02-06 21:16:07.193 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
> 2012-02-06 21:16:07.209 pause_active: 1
> Restarting mythfrontend.real...
> 2012-02-06 21:16:07.484 mythfrontend version: fixes/0.24
> [v0.24.1-80-g1de0431] www.mythtv.org
>
> ====
> Hope this help out a little.  Seems a bit cryptic and not sure what to
> provide as background information when asking for assistance.
>
> I will go back through the myth-setup pages again as I have been doing so
> over the last several days and see if anything looks out of place.
>

perhaps start by telling us what sort of card you have set up in item
2 in mythtv-setup.

> Thank you for the response Nick.
>
> David
>
>
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