Re: MythTV frustration.

On Wednesday 01 November 2006 14:48, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> I've managed to get MythTV working under Dapper (which I'm going to be
> redoing once I get some new hardware, and documenting thoroughly for the
> purposes of the SLG site). Unforutanetly, it's not exactly working
> 100%. In the front end, I can try and schedule recordings all I want.
> However, once I go back to the EPG, it shows the programs as NOT being
> recorded.
> MythWeb shows this problem as well. If I list the scheduled
> recordings, I'll see each attempt I've made to record in a big list (so
> if I tried 5 times, I see 5 duplicates of sessions...).

Usually myth will report some type of reason why it isn't begin recorded - P
(previously recorded), C (schedule conflict) etc. What is it saying?

However, in the
> upcoming recordings tab there isn't anything. The only way I've been
> able to make it record anything has been to tune to the show while it's
> on, and tap R.

Perhaps you could try restarting mythbackend and see if it picks up the
changes to the database. On really slow hardware myth can take a few minutes
(or longer) to figure out what to do with scheduling changes.

> I've also not had any luck with the Hauppage 150 card's IR port. I
> plugged in the dongle and tried the two different ways to get IR going
> (cat /dev/lirc* and the mode2 program, after the kernel module
> inserted), but I haven't gotten a single wiff of data from it. Has
> anyone setup their IrDA port on this card with Linux?

Never tried this. Sorry.

Glenn
Received on Wed Nov 1 15:40:15 2006