[mythtv-users] Does the weather part of mythtv work?

Nicolas Riendeau knight at teksavvy.com
Sat Jun 19 14:24:10 UTC 2010


Hi!

stuart wrote:
> Hadn't tried mythtv weather for a long time.  I remember it working 
> about a year ago but since have upgraded to 23.  Now the 2nd screen that 
> I assume should be populated with loads of options is blank.  I see 

Maybe you have missing dependencies for the MythWeather scripts? Could also be 
permission problems (the scripts need to be accessible and they must be able to write 
somewhere some sort of cacche file with the results they got.)...

> 
> I checked and the mythtv weather perl scripts are world executable.  But 
> I am suspicious the mysql data base for weather has not been created.  I 

That might be the case if your trying to run it on a new installation and not the one 
that used to work. MythWeather tables need InnoDB tables which are rarely, but 
sometumes, not installed on some distribution.

Good luck!

Nick


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