[mythtv-users] Program Schedules: working or not? How to (re)configure?
Daryl McDonald
darylangela at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 21:30:19 UTC 2013
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us> wrote:
> Arrrrggg!
>
>
> On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Leif Pihl <leif at pihl.us> wrote:
>>
>> Eric:
>>
>> Turning off the Comcast feed for the 1800 card could make sense, it's the
>> one connected to the over-the-air antenna.
>> However, the 2250 card _IS_ connected to the CATV signal.
>>
>> AND
>>
>> I've not found a way to input this data twice,
>> one set for the 1800 (Antenna) and
>> a different set for the 2250 (CATV/Comcast).
>>
>> I'll do the EIT right away.
>>
>> LP
>
>
> Watch the top-posting (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mailing_List_etiquette).
> You need to log in to your Schedules Direct account and create a new lineup
> for the broadcast/OTA channels (in addition to your existing Cable TV
> lineup). Then in mythtv-setup, you need to configure that new lineup as a
> video source (that is MythTV's name for a set of channels and associated
> listing data which are tunable by the selected input), and then in Input
> Connections, assign that OTA video source to the 1800.
>
> By the way, it would be a good idea to do a clean start: perform a "Delete
> all capture cards" (not "Delete all on this host") and start from scratch.
> It shouldn't take you long and it will ensure you don't have old invalid
> entries that might confuse the backend.
>
> Karl
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> After doing the (earlier described) command line upgrades (versus the
> "Update Manager" built into the graphical interface), I checked my
> settings in "schedulesdirect.org", and found that they were already correct.
>
> I then went ahead and followed Karl's advice, and deleted the cards, and
> re-identified them.
>
> Also, somewhere along in this process I also managed to get the various
> software packets updated....
> But now I have an old problem that's coming back to haunt me. (And no, I
> don't remember how I fixed it last time.)
>
> Whenever the Front End starts up, I get this message:
> Could not connect to master backend
> MythContext
> Could not connect to the master backend server. Is it
> running? Is the IP address set for it in mythtv-setup
> correct?
>
> This occurs when it starts from a entire system restart as well as
> immediately after I've been in the Backend Setup program. And yea, the IP
> address is set to something like 127.0.0.1
>
> NOTE: My router does have a Static IP address set for this box of
> 192.168.0.200 , however, a Unix/Linux/BSD-informed friend of mine has said
> in the past that this should be totally irrelevant, and that the default
> value in the MythTV Backend Setup should be left as is.
>
> What do I do next to fix this?
I had this problem and was referred to this site
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Upstart_mythbackend_Configuration
which led me to add a "sleep 7" in my /etc/init/mythtv-backend.conf file
Daryl
>
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