Fwd: MythTV with USB DVB-T
Len Lawrence <lcl-s9phx+4gxdMG2Il/[email protected]> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:30:33 +0100
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030706020505080600080509 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------060103080905010201090202" --------------060103080905010201090202 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -------- Original Message -------- Subject: MythTV with USB DVB-T Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:28:16 +0100 From: Len Lawrence <lcl-s9phx+4gxdMG2Il/[email protected]> To: expert-4qZELD6FgxheH41UXmfQsti2O/[email protected] Mandriva 2009.1, 2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb Devices such as the Hauppage WinTV DVB-T Nova USB stick have been widely reported as compatible with kernels later that 2.6.27 so I installed one and the operating system appeared to recognize it once the firmware file was copied to /lib/firmware. This created the /dev/dvb tree and switched on the green LED on the USB device. There are two LEDs - presumably for the two tuners (?). A listing from lsmod contains these entries: dvb_usb 18764 1 dvb_usb_dib0700 dvb_core 103468 1 dvb_usb dib3000mc 14056 1 dvb_usb_dib0700 dibx000_common 4068 3 dib7000p,dib7000m,dib3000mc dib0070 8356 3 dvb_usb_dib0700 I had already installed MythTV earlier and simply ran the setup program and the mythfilldatabase --manual command to connect the video source (antenna) to the tuner card. Subsequently I was able to scan for Freeview channels, about half of which came in at 60% to 80% signal strength. However when I tried "Watch TV" the screen flashed and reverted to the menu. Can't remember the errors - might have been something to do with the mySQL database. mysqld was running and so was the mythtv backend. After several hours of trying I decided to delete all the mythtv components; urpme -a myth and then delete mythconverg. Reinstalled mythtv but could no longer create the database. Can't remember how I did it in the first case. None of the other possibilities for TV viewing work; they all seem to want /dev/video or /dev/v4l, and kwintv could not be located in Mandriva. References on Ubuntu forums to using vlc to display TV indicated that dvb-utils was required but this is not part of Mandriva's distribution. So can anybody give me a clear idea of what I need to do to set up MythTV again? How do you create the initial database for instance? The online manual only tells me to do what I am doing anyway. No troubleshooting tips. I have attached the terminal output from a mythtv-setup session in case anyone cares to check it. Apologies for the length of this query. Len --------------060103080905010201090202 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <br> <br> -------- Original Message -------- <table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Subject: </th> <td>MythTV with USB DVB-T</td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th> <td>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:28:16 +0100</td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th> <td>Len Lawrence <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lcl-s9phx+4gxdMG2Il/[email protected]"><lcl-s9phx+4gxdMG2Il/[email protected]></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">To: </th> <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:expert-4qZELD6FgxheH41UXmfQsti2O/[email protected]">expert-4qZELD6FgxheH41UXmfQsti2O/[email protected]</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <br> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <big><tt>Mandriva 2009.1, 2.6.29.1-desktop-4mnb<br> <br> Devices such as the Hauppage WinTV DVB-T Nova USB stick have been<br> widely reported as compatible with kernels later that 2.6.27 so I<br> installed one and the operating system appeared to recognize it once<br> the firmware file was copied to /lib/firmware. This created the<br> /dev/dvb tree and switched on the green LED on the USB device. There<br> are two LEDs - presumably for the two tuners (?).<br> <br> A listing from lsmod contains these entries:<br> <br> dvb_usb 18764 1 dvb_usb_dib0700<br> dvb_core 103468 1 dvb_usb<br> dib3000mc 14056 1 dvb_usb_dib0700<br> dibx000_common 4068 3 dib7000p,dib7000m,dib3000mc<br> dib0070 8356 3 dvb_usb_dib0700<br> <br> I had already installed MythTV earlier and simply ran the setup<br> program and the mythfilldatabase --manual command to connect the video<br> source (antenna) to the tuner card. Subsequently I was able to scan<br> for Freeview channels, about half of which came in at 60% to 80%<br> signal strength. However when I tried "Watch TV" the screen flashed<br> and reverted to the menu. Can't remember the errors - might have been<br> something to do with the mySQL database. mysqld was running and so<br> was the mythtv backend.<br> <br> After several hours of trying I decided to delete all the mythtv<br> components; urpme -a myth and then delete mythconverg. Reinstalled<br> mythtv but could no longer create the database. Can't remember how I<br> did it in the first case. None of the other possibilities for TV<br> viewing work; they all seem to want /dev/video or /dev/v4l, and kwintv<br> could not be located in Mandriva. References on Ubuntu forums to<br> using vlc to display TV indicated that dvb-utils was required but this<br> is not part of Mandriva's distribution.<br> <br> So can anybody give me a clear idea of what I need to do to set up<br> MythTV again? How do you create the initial database for instance?<br> The online manual only tells me to do what I am doing anyway. No<br> troubleshooting tips.<br> <br> I have attached the terminal output from a mythtv-setup session in<br> case anyone cares to check it.<br> <br> Apologies for the length of this query.<br> <br> Len<br> </tt></big><br> </body> </html> --------------060103080905010201090202-- --------------030706020505080600080509 Content-Type: text/plain; name="mythtvsetup" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mythtvsetup" [lcl@altair ...]$ mythtv-setup 2010-09-11 00:14:32.588 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2010-09-11 00:14:32.595 XScreenSaver support enabled 2010-09-11 00:14:32.603 DPMS is active. 2010-09-11 00:14:32.604 Empty LocalHostName. 2010-09-11 00:14:32.604 Using localhost value of altair 2010-09-11 00:14:32.608 New DB connection, total: 1 2010-09-11 00:14:32.610 Using WOL to wakeup database server (Try 1 of 2) WOLsqlServerCommand not set 2010-09-11 00:14:34.614 Using WOL to wakeup database server (Try 2 of 2) WOLsqlServerCommand not set 2010-09-11 00:14:36.617 WOL failed, unable to connect to database! 2010-09-11 00:14:36.617 Unable to connect to database! 2010-09-11 00:14:36.617 Driver error was [1/1049]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Unknown database 'mythconverg' QSqlQuery::exec: database not open QSqlQuery::exec: database not open 2010-09-11 00:14:36.668 DB Error (KickDatabase): Query was: SELECT NULL; No error type from QSqlError? Strange... ................................................................................ 2010-09-11 00:14:39.336 UPnPautoconf() - No UPnP backends found 2010-09-11 00:14:39.336 No UPnP backends found 2010-09-11 00:14:39.338 Primary screen 0. 2010-09-11 00:14:39.338 Using screen 0, 1920x1200 at 0,0 2010-09-11 00:14:39.338 No theme dir: /home/lcl/.mythtv/themes/blue 2010-09-11 00:14:39.339 Switching to square mode (blue) 2010-09-11 00:14:39.355 Using the Qt painter 2010-09-11 00:14:39.355 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - Failed to read /home/lcl/.mythtv/joystickmenurc mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory 2010-09-11 00:14:39.355 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2010-09-11 00:14:46.707 DB Error (Clear setting): Query was: No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2010-09-11 00:14:46.707 DB Error (SaveSettingOnHost query failure: ): Query was: No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2010-09-11 00:14:46.707 DB Error (Clear setting): Query was: No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2010-09-11 00:14:46.707 DB Error (SaveSettingOnHost query failure: ): Query was: No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2010-09-11 00:16:22.084 Writing settings file /home/lcl/.mythtv/mysql.txt 2010-09-11 00:16:22.084 Closing DB connection named 'DBManager0' 2010-09-11 00:16:22.119 Using WOL to wakeup database server (Try 1 of 2) WOLsqlServerCommand not set 2010-09-11 00:16:24.123 Using WOL to wakeup database server (Try 2 of 2) WOLsqlServerCommand not set 2010-09-11 00:16:26.126 WOL failed, unable to connect to database! 2010-09-11 00:16:26.126 Unable to connect to database! 2010-09-11 00:16:26.126 Driver error was [1/1049]: QMYSQL3: Unable to connect Database error was: Unknown database 'mythconverg' QSqlQuery::exec: database not open QSqlQuery::exec: database not open 2010-09-11 00:16:26.177 DB Error (KickDatabase): Query was: SELECT NULL; No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2010-09-11 00:16:26.227 Cannot login to database? 2010-09-11 00:16:26.227 Cannot login to database? 2010-09-11 00:16:26.228 Primary screen 0. 2010-09-11 00:16:26.228 Using screen 0, 1920x1200 at 0,0 2010-09-11 00:16:26.228 No theme dir: /home/lcl/.mythtv/themes/blue 2010-09-11 00:16:26.229 Switching to square mode (blue) 2010-09-11 00:16:26.235 Using the Qt painter 2010-09-11 00:16:26.235 JoystickMenuClient Error: Joystick disabled - Failed to read /home/lcl/.mythtv/joystickmenurc mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory 2010-09-11 00:16:26.235 lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2010-09-11 00:16:26.456 DB Error (Clear setting): Query was: No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2010-09-11 00:16:26.456 DB Error (SaveSettingOnHost query failure: ): Query was: No error type from QSqlError? Strange... 2010-09-11 00:16:36.748 User cancelled database configuration 2010-09-11 00:16:36.784 Deleting UPnP client... 2010-09-11 00:16:37.910 Failed to init MythContext, exiting. --------------030706020505080600080509--