[mythtv-users] getting started

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Fri May 31 13:47:41 UTC 2013


I'm in Windsor Ontario, that's just south of Detroit Michigan


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Another Sillyname <
anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Daryl
>
> Where in the world are you?
>
>
>
> On 31 May 2013 14:34, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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