<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Roo</b> <<a href="mailto:roo.watt@gmail.com">roo.watt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 06/11/2007, Mark Rafn <<a href="mailto:dagon@dagon.net">dagon@dagon.net</a>> wrote:<br><snip><br>> Are there instructions somewhere for setting up the "standard" development<br>> system alongside a production system, including maybe how to set up a
<br>> dummy tuner (or "steal" a tuner from production only when not needed), and<br>> how to clone and upgrade your production data (including symlinks to the<br>> video files, so deletes won't affect production)?
<br><br>Hi Mark,<br><br>It is possible to setup a dummy file based tuner, I am not sure if<br>there are instructions available though.<br><br>You can create a dummy recorder with some mysql-fu shown below. You<br>have to have compiled mythtv to support MPEG recorders and you will
<br>get various warnings in the log files. But it works.<br><br>mysql> INSERT INTO capturecard (cardtype, hostname, videodevice)<br>VALUES ('MPEG','myhostname','file:/mythstore/tmp/dummy.mpg');<br>
<br>This creates a new capture card that will tune dummy.mpg on a loop.<br></blockquote></div><br>That's really cool. What do you do about channels and listings? Import a channels.conf and then run mythfilldatabase in the normal way?
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Paul Mason