[mythtv-users] Hello, and a question about PHP version

[Peter Bennett]

On 07/21/2018 05:03 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just signed up, because I recently bought a TBS6205 card and am
> trying to set up mythtv to use it. I use openSUSE, currently Leap 15.0,
> which has been a bit of a struggle first to get the card working (I was
> on Leap 42.3, which won't compile v4l) and now to get mythtv working, so
> I'm hoping I may find some more knowledgeable people here. Oh, I'm in
> the UK.
>
> I'm in the middle of trying to use mthtv-setup to get my backend going
> (I plan to use Kodi on a Fire TV as the frontend eventually) and am
> currently stuck with error messages about the tuners being programmed
> to start on channel 3 which does not exist. I don't understand what
> that means really, nor how to fix it.
You need to use mythtv-setup to scan for channels. Once you have sime 
channels set up, you can change the setting for teh card to a valid 
channel number.

>   Oh, and is there any way to run
> mthtv-setup in a window instead of fullscreen? It's very annoying to
> have to exit from it every time I want to look something up on the web
> or inspect my filesystem or whatever.
It uses the frontend settings. If you run the frontend on the backend 
system, you can use frontend setup appearance settings to specify to run 
in a window and provide the window size and position. You cannot make 
the window resizable, but you can set it to run in half the screen. You 
can also specify a window border if you want to be able to move it or 
minimize it.
> But my reason for posting at this time is actually to do with mythweb.
> I tried to install v0.28 from packman, but when I do I see a dependency
> error saying that nothing provides apache2-mod_php5. Now I see that
> currently installed on my system is apache2-mod_php7 and I also see at
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12588 that the problem was
> encountered three years ago and was fixed in mythweb two years ago
> apparently in v0.27. So 0.28 should be OK.
>
> So I'm trying to understand what has happened and if there's any way to
> get mythweb to work.
I don't use packman but it is easy to install mythweb manually. no 
compiling is needed. See 
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Build_from_Source#Install_MythWeb . I wrote 
those instructions, and I used them recently. I am running php7.2 with 
no problem. The instructions are for ubuntu but I think they should work 
the same on other distros.

Peter