[mythtv-users] Really frustrated trying setup MythTV - 2nd Video Source

[Greg Tippitt]

You didn't say you were in the UK, but since you said The Radio Times
and DVB, I'm guessing.   I'm in the US and we use the SchedulesDirect
website as a Video Source.  I had two tuners  and two antenna pointed
in different directions, even though they were same kind of tuner,
because I had to have a directional antenna for the weak signal on
one.  Since I got different stations on the two tuners, I set up two
schedules on the SchedulesDirect website that we use for Video
Sources.  I had to say that one was for my mailing zip code and the
other was for the next town over, because it wouldn't let me have two
schedules with different channels otherwise?

Someone in the UK will be able to give you better help.

I had problems with this idea for a bit idea as well.  Good Luck.
Once you get the hang of MythTV, you will love it.

Greg

On 12/1/13, Jason Ward <JasonFWard at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, despite 3 years more experience of Linux under my belt, I still find
> MythTV bizarrely hard to setup.y
> I won't go into the trials and tribulations I've been through to get
> where I currently am, but it has been a long and frustrating road.
>
> Right now, as best as I can tell my back end is not downloading
> schedules from The Radio Times, no idea why, I just see that "error 2"
> was reported.  Although schedules off the air appear to be working fine.
>
> I have questions about DVB-T and DVB-T2 tuners in the same backend, does
> the fact that one of the turners sees more channels than the other mean
> that I need to have 2 separate video sources, one for each type of
> tuner?
>
> Having installed the back end via fresh downloaded Mythbuntu ISO and use
> Myth-Control-Centre to switch to v0.27 is there a reason that Ubuntu
> Update Manager refuses to do the upgrade needed and I have install
> aptitude and manually force the upgrade to happen?
>
> I've installed the frontend on my main PC, but it kept installing the
> backend as well, I had to go into Myth-Control-Centre to explicitly
> switch to Frontend only, I can apparently connect to the backend with
> credentials asked for when the front end first runs, but I can see no
> data from the backend and I keep getting a an error overlay telling me
> that "mythcontext" could not contact the master backend.
>
> I have no idea what mythcontext is, how its setup or what it does, and
> Googling for information just led me to source code.
>
> All I want is have a frontend that I point at the backend and have just
> work, can someone give me any help with this task?
>
> Sorry guys and gals that I'm sure work hard and invest much time into
> MythTV, much as I know its a great system when it works, but I'm very
> frustrated after many hours of trying to make MythTV work it seems to me
> to be temperamental (it seems to work then it doesn't), needlessly
> delicate (little changes cause unrelated parts to fall over) and
> unrelentingly complex to setup.  If I had the skills myself, or the
> money to pay for someone else’s skills, I would I would be investing
> into the "just make it work" category.
>
> Jason
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