[mythtv-users] DVB-S2 card failing to display channels

Chris Lewis chrislewis915 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 2 00:26:10 UTC 2013


On Mar 1, 2013 10:50 PM, "Jeffrey Ratcliffe" <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 1 March 2013 01:17, Chris Lewis <chrislewis915 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Silly question but have u set up the lnb in myth?
>
> Not a silly question at all. And I hadn't.
>
> Mostly, I wasn't getting the DiSEqC button, as MythTV couldn't query
> the card, and even on the unreproducible occasion that it appeared, I
> couldn't see how to get past the "unconnected" option[1].
>
> The user I was running mythtv-setup under seemed to be in the
> appropriate group for the /dev/dvb/adapterX devices, but I retried
> with sudo, and lo and behold, got the DiSEqC, worked out how to set up
> the LNB, and was able to scan for channels.
>
> This has taken me to two new problems, but that is probably a matter
> for another thread.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff

Glad you got it working but I'm pretty certain you shouldnt need to use
sudo to get it to work.

Chris
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