[mythtv-users] getting started

[Daryl McDonald]

I'm trying to input cards right now, guides are very thin on this matter. I
have two cards one hybrid and one HDMI, but I might have detected a problem
earlier, ATSC wasn't an option while setting TV format contrary to the
guide.


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Paul Wootton <pwootton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31 May 2013, at 13:40, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok Myth TV front and back end are installed from Software Center. I'm
> having trouble setting up the back end, recognizing tuner cards etc. Going
> to the front end does no good because the back end doesn't even turn on. I
> also have Mythbuntu Control Center, from Software Center, it opens and I
> can flip through all the pages but I'm wondering if it is supposed to work
> with Mythbuntu instead of Myth TV. Previously mentioned is all on a Ubuntu
> 12.04/64 bit OS I have Mythbuntu intalled on a partition extension of my
> drive, I do a lot of restarting there because the screen goes blank or
> because I can't do anything else and it seems like I'm only seeing front
> end pages I don't see where to input tuner cards of which I have two, a
> Hauppauge Win TV HVR 1250. and a Kworld Hybrid.
> If it seem like I'm all over the map here its because I am, I've been
> getting bits and pieces from here and there that I can't get to fit well
> together. What I need is small steps through any system to a working HVR.
> Thanks in advance for your patience and experience.
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>wrote:
>
>> Daryl McDonald wrote:
>> > I have Myth TV front and back installed, can't get them to work ...
>>
>> It might help to specify more than "doesn't work" ! Specify what stages
>> you've already gone through, what stage didn't work, what you expected to
>> see happen, and what you actually see. At the moment the information
>> doesn't differentiate between "couldn't install the packages" through to
>> "it all installed and configured but I get no watchable recordings".
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> The backend won't start until you have some cards configured.  You need to
> run mythtv-setuo to configure the system - I'm wondering if you've missed
> this step
> -- Paul --
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