[mythtv-users] Some successes...EPG, IR Remote and making it work

Wed Feb 8 04:26:22 UTC 2012

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Nick Rout
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:47 PM
To: Discussion about MythTV
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Some successes...EPG, IR Remote and making it
work

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:43 AM, David Sims <simsdw56 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Dear MythTV Community,
>
> I have some successes to share with my experimenting on MythTV...
>
> 1) Switched over to using Schedules Direct for the EPG.  Did not want to
do
> this as all I needed was a temporary service while I play around with
> MythTV.  Two weeks is not long enough when only playing with this stuff on
> the weekends and after my full time job.  May need to work on this again a
> little bit later.  Also did not want to violate any licensing agreements.
>
> 2) Got the lircd.conf and hardware.conf files corrected last night and the
> utility (irw) now shows the key presses on my TIVO remote from Nero's
liquid
> TV.
> The answer was in the hardware.conf file settings.  Needed to change the
> LOAD_MODULES=true to LOAD_MODULES=false!  I have a Hauppauge 750Q tuner
and
> it does not need the kernel modules loaded in order to work.

I can't see a 750Q on their website, is it a 950Q?

if so is it set up for analogue or digital?

>
> 3) I scheduled a program to record and it seems to have done that
recording.
> At least I have a 93 MB .nuv file in my videos directory.

Well you could try watching it with mplayer, seeing you seem to have
that working.

However a digital tuner will NOT produce .nuv files, not sure what the
analogue side of the card will produce as I left analogue behind years
ago.

> Not sure exactly
> how to go about watching this recording as the rest of the MythFrontEnd
does
> not seem to work for me.  I can use mplayer to watch live tv but this has
to
> have the MythBackEnd shutdown when using.  Seems that I have a lot of the
> background pieces working now but the Front End is still being a little
> elusive.  Anyone have suggestions on this?

yes:

1. work your way through the installation, including ALL pages in
mythtv-setup (except system events which you don't need)

2. when asking for help give us some more info. log files. distro.
what you are trying to tune to (the 950Q, if thats what you have) does
(a)NTSC Analog Cable, Over the Air TV
(b)ATSC Digital Over the Air HDTV
(c)Clear QAM Digital Cable TV
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Interesting responses.  Thank you.

Yep, typo'd the tuner it is a Hauppauge HVR950Q.
TV format is listed as NTSC and I am using an OTA antenna for reception.
It has been my understanding that analogue is no longer being broadcast by
any of the US stations anymore because they all went to digital.
Thus my thinking that analogue is not even an option.

My distro is:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 11.10
Release:        11.10
Codename:       oneiric

I really do not have much in terms of log files to share on this.  
Here is what I think might be pertinent from the back end log:

2012-02-06 21:15:20.184 TVRec(7): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2012-02-06 21:15:20.210 TVRec(7): HW Tuner: 7->7
2012-02-06 21:15:20.263 LoadFromScheduler(): Error, called from backend.
2012-02-06 21:15:20.266 AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space:
2.0 GB w/freq: 15 min
2012-02-06 21:15:27.189 MainServer::ANN Playback
2012-02-06 21:15:27.204 adding: ******** as a client (events: 0)
2012-02-06 21:15:28.347 TVRec(7): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2012-02-06 21:15:28.428 MainServer, Warning: Unknown socket closing
MythSocket(0x7f13e4040e20)
2012-02-06 21:15:28.454 MythSocket(7f13e4040e20:-1): writeStringList: Error,
socket went unconnected.
                        We wrote 0 of 10 bytes with 1 errors
2012-02-06 21:15:28.575 Channel(/dev/video0) Error:
InitPictureAttribute(brightness): failed to query controls.
                        eno: Bad file descriptor (9) 

And here is what I think might be pertinent from the front end log:

2012-02-06 21:15:20.132 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV
2012-02-06 21:15:20.132 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
192.168.8.28:6543
 (try 1 of 1)
2012-02-06 21:15:20.132 Using protocol version 63
2012-02-06 21:15:20.183 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- begin
2012-02-06 21:15:27.183 MythSocket(168a1b0:26): readStringList: Error, timed
out after 7
000 ms.
2012-02-06 21:15:27.183 RemoteEncoder::SendReceiveStringList(): No response.
2012-02-06 21:15:27.183 Spawning LiveTV Recorder -- end
2012-02-06 21:15:27.188 We have a
playbackURL(/var/lib/mythtv/livetv/1005_20120206211520
.nuv) & cardtype(DUMMY)
2012-02-06 21:15:27.188 We have a RingBuffer
2012-02-06 21:15:27.188 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
192.168.8.28:6543
 (try 1 of 1)
2012-02-06 21:15:27.188 Using protocol version 63
2012-02-06 21:16:07.193 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting for
recorder to s
tart
2012-02-06 21:16:07.193 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started
2012-02-06 21:16:07.209 pause_active: 1
Restarting mythfrontend.real...
2012-02-06 21:16:07.484 mythfrontend version: fixes/0.24
[v0.24.1-80-g1de0431] www.mythtv.org

====
Hope this help out a little.  Seems a bit cryptic and not sure what to
provide as background information when asking for assistance.

I will go back through the myth-setup pages again as I have been doing so
over the last several days and see if anything looks out of place.

Thank you for the response Nick.  

David