[mythtv-users] possible problem with mythweb channel editor

[Bruce Markey]

Cedar McKay wrote:
> Hello. I just upgraded to 0.14 using the gentoo ebuilds. Mythtv seems to 
> be working fine. Mythweb works fine for scheduling shows, deleting 
> shows, etc. However, I wanted to play with filters a little, so went to 
> the mythweb channel editor. I typed in 'invert' into the filter column 
> for one of my channels, hit "save" and the field I had just edited 
> blanked itself and was empty again. I thought permissions problem with 
> the database? But I'm allowed to schedule new recordings and delete 
> shows, so I don't know. Anyway, I tried adding a filter via the 
> mythtv-setup program. That worked fine. Back to mythweb, and the proper 
> text (added in mythtv-setup) now does show up in the mythweb filter 
> field. But try to modify that text string, hit save, and it is blanked 
> again. Looking directly at the database with mysql shows that the text 
> has been deleted from the database, it isn't that it just isn't being 
> displayed in mythweb. Any suggestions welcome.

I just tried this for yucks and saw this in /var/log/mysql.log:

1542 Query UPDATE channel SET freqid='2',finetune='0',videofilters=''...

I would assume this means that the variable in mythweb isn't
making it's way from the form to the SQL query statment.

--  bjm