[mythtv-users] Tuners in constant use, until I change the way backend starts

Erik Hjertén erik at hjerten.com
Tue Nov 26 23:29:22 UTC 2013


2013-11-26 22:29, paul skrev:
> I have just installed two TBS cards a 6982 DVB-S & 6280 DVB-T into 
> what was my perfect running Mythbuntu .27
>
> Problem I had was constant tuners are in use, yet with scan then play 
> via mplayer they work fine? Now by accident I stopped the backend and 
> thought about starting it verbose, but instead of doing a sudo service 
> mythbackend stop & start I just ran "mytbackend" on it's own. Tuners 
> now work in Myth? , did try starting as a service again and the tuners 
> are all busy again? Is this some sort of permissions issue with the 
> tuners? Not quite sure where to look? any hints
Check permissions in /dev/dvb/... I guess it needs to be readable by 
your whichever user is running mythbackend. If you have to change the 
permissions I think you ca add a chmod line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local or 
similar to make it stick after boot.


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