[mythtv-users] Help, I've screwed up mythfrontend and Leanfront on my FireTV

[James Abernathy]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 7:35 AM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:35:46 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >
> >On 7/29/20 10:19 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
> >> On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:13:47 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >>> Next I got mythfrontend v31.0-79 working on the Shield TV and see no
> >>> issues once the database setting were fixed. But on Leanfront v0-172 I
> >>> can watch recording and videos, but LiveTV regardless of channel plays
> >>> one of my Video file from my NAS, same video no matter which channel.
> >> Playing the same video file all the time is characteristic of a demo
> >> tuner having been set up and pointed to that video file.
> >
> >I'm guessing that's a backend setup thing you can do. I'm not aware of
> >it. It's also a problem I have on my traditional PC based frontends.
> >When I use mythfrontend on a PC or on my Shield TV they behave exactly
> >as they did before. I'm going to test a few tuner specific settings and
> >do more testing today.
> >
> >There's nothing to lose if I have to blow it all up and start again.
> >Part of my rebuild was to use a SSD for my boot drive. I forgot how
> >really fast those things are compared to Hard drives.
>
> You should know if you have set up a demo tuner.  But maybe you
> slipped and clicked on the wrong thing.  If you run mythtv-setup and
> go to "2. Capture cards", you should see a tuner listed with "DEMO :"
> at the front, followed by the name of the file it is pointed to.  If
> you have one or more of them, delete them.
>
> A demo tuner is used to set up backends where there are no real tuners
> available.  When you record from it, or play live TV from it, it will
> always play the same video file it is pointed to.  I think it will
> repeat from the beginning of the file whenever it reaches the end.
> Demo tuners are very useful when you want to have a backend in a
> virtual machine so that you can try something with it.  They also
> allow you to make a slave backend without any real tuners so that
> slave backend can provide storage group directories to the MythTV
> system.
>
> If you saw my recent reply with the log information, it's not a demo
tuner.  It seems to get its ID number messed up and pulls up a recording
that is from the Storage Group -> Videos.
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