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Users / Re: MythTV: Capture cards disappeared - cannot re-add

« on: September 17, 2008, 02:32:33 am »

Hello Seth, thank you!!! That did it. I got bulk of it from a 3 week old db and believe I have the rest in the "hosed" copy.

So to recap, like the original post on this thread, I connected a 0.21 version of MythTV to my LinuxMCE backend. Immediately after that, I lost my tuners and could not add them back. I followed your steps and restored from an old copy I had around.

Last question: is the "hosed" copy broken to a point where I can't copy back to the live db via

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mysql -u mythtv -p mythconverg < mythtv_backup.sql Presuming the problem is with the schema, can I copy the records back with the above command or is that going to hose the live copy too? From your notes above I understand I can copy each element, one by one but was looking for a quicker way out.

Once again, thank you. You saved me from yet another full install.

JR

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Users / Re: MythTV: Capture cards disappeared - cannot re-add

« on: September 16, 2008, 04:26:44 pm »

Thanks a bunch, Seth. I'm taking baby steps here so bear with me if you please.

When I enter

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mysql -u root -p
UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('my password') WHERE user='mythtv';
I get: ERROR 1046 (3D000): No database selected

If I enter

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mysql -u root -p mythconverg
UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD('my password') WHERE user='mythtv';

I get: ERROR 1146 (42S02): Table 'mythconverg.user' doesn't exist

I've also tried UPDATE mythtv SET Password=MyPassword but got the same "does not exist" error. I'm probably missing something very basic here, sorry.

Thanks,
JR

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Users / Re: MythTV: Capture cards disappeared - cannot re-add

« on: September 16, 2008, 02:59:33 pm »

Hello Seth, thanks for your help. I'm still new at this and have some of questions - some of which will not make much sense, I guess. Here it goes:

1. My MythTv setup has user "mythtv" and a password generated during initial install. Should we use that instead of "root" with your instructions above?

2. Using PhpMyAdmin, I can see that an old copy (about 3 weeks old) of mythconverg has 74 tables and the new "hosed" one has 82. Can I simply remove those tables that are not in the old copy? This assumes that the extra tables were added by the newer MythTV client I used against the LinuxMCE backend.

3. What does this do?

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mysql -u root -p mythconverg < /usr/share/mythtv/sql/mc.sql
4. After following your procedure, the tuners were recognized and added to the list of devices. However, when running mythtv-setup, it throws a bunch of "access denied for user mythtv@localhost" and "unable to connect to database" errors. Could that be related to the "root" user owning the new mythconverg db I created in a earlier step?

Thanks,
JR

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Users / Re: Quality of TV tuners?

« on: August 31, 2008, 07:21:22 am »

Hi. Note that, while the HDHomeRun is an excellent tuner, it only receives digital signals; no analog.

JR

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Developers / Re: Purpose of "System Recovery" boot option?

« on: August 31, 2008, 03:42:37 am »

Hi. I wish I knew exactly how it did so I could fix it or better yet report it intelligently. But no, I have no idea why it stopped recognizing my HDHomeRun in the sources or input (?) setup page. The device was still there in the admin page but it didn't show in the mythtv setup page. Trying to add the tuners back in did nothing. In fact, I could not add any of the available tuners from the drop down list; after pressing "finish" the screen was still blank with no tuners added.

On the plus side, and after cooling down a bit (sorry), reloading MCE and restoring a backup from last week fixed everything including accounts, settings, etc. It did not restore mythtv's channel lists but, fortunately, I had an open browser on another machine with the correct page loaded (http.://mcebox/mythweb/settings/channels) and simply hit the save button and all my channels were back. Good thing because that took hours to match to the listings. Overall, restoring saved me and I can live with how it all went.

Back to subject, System Recovery did not work for me. I'm not sure what a "UUID" is but, do I need to update that as well with some unique number for my installation? Perhaps that's why recovery didn't work.

Oops, just noticed I'm in the "developer" area.

Thanks,
JR

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Developers / Re: Purpose of "System Recovery" boot option?

« on: August 30, 2008, 03:20:11 am »

Hi. Well, recovery doesn't work. I got the recovery partition to boot but it failed with another error and hung.

I'm now on my 3rd and last MCE install. I think I've given it a fair chance and will be disappointed if I can't make it go. But it's consuming all of my time and I can't picture myself rolling it out throughout my home and then have it break like this. Wish me luck!

JR

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Developers / Re: Purpose of "System Recovery" boot option?

« on: August 29, 2008, 08:27:34 pm »

Hello again. Beyond fixing the version numbers from 2.6.20.15 to 2.6.22.14, the other problem is that there's no "initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic" file in the recovery partition. The file there was named: "initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.bak". Note the ".bak" suffix.

Until it's fixed, I've edited the menu to say:

Title      System Recovery
root      (hd0,5)
kernel    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=f64a7de8-3eb6-42ee-93f5-8737ad0e5f84 quiet install_from_hdd
initrd     /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic.bak

It booted to the recovery partition but I can't tell if it's doing anything. Probably due to the "quite" option above.

Thanks,
JR

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Developers / Re: Purpose of "System Recovery" boot option?

« on: August 29, 2008, 07:46:34 pm »

Hi. I'm in need of recovering since MythTV is messed up. I tried the system recovery menu but, as pointed here, it has the wrong kernel level and it fails. I edited that to 2.6.22-14 but I still get "error 15. file not found". I assume hd0,5 is good for sata recovery partition sda6, yes?

Thanks,
JR

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Users / Re: ATI Remote Wonder issue and documentation

« on: August 24, 2008, 05:12:49 am »

Ditto here. I've tried adding the device to the media director using the included "ATI Remote Wonder" template and blacklisted the ati_remote driver in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist but nothing. Any hints?

Thanks,
JR

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Installation issues / Re: Two NIC problem

« on: August 16, 2008, 04:33:47 am »

Collin, dude, that was it! Ok here's my observations and (temporary) solution.

When installing the core - perhaps on my particular combination of hardware (and luck) - eth0 gets assigned to the internal network. I installed the whole thing twice and it did this consistently. As Collin commented on one of his previous posts, there's an error during the install or first boot that might be the root of the problem. I see in the firstboot.log a "device1 has a bad mac address" error then everything gets messed up from there, it seems.

I installed two new NICs on PCI slots for now. I wrote down the mac addresses and went to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and edited eth0 for the corresponding mac address I wanted to make my external and the same for eth1, the internal card. Save, reboot and all is good. It connected to the mothership on the external net and discovered my HDHomeRun on the internal net.

After I get to play around with it a bit more - I haven't slept a wink in 26 hours now messing with this - I'm going to try the above solution for the internal cards. BTW, I installed this on a Gigabyte P45 motherboard that I heard elsewhere was not compatible with MCE. As soon as I get it a bit more stable, I'll add the case to the wiki.

Thanks all for your help, I guess we can close this one out.

JR

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Installation issues / Re: Two NIC problem

« on: August 15, 2008, 10:06:18 pm »

Hey JJ. No, I'm running 32 bit on Intel.

I noticed you're running your "internal" network on eth0 just as I was when the install finished. Is this a supported config? I thought I read on another posting that you must run external on eth0.

Too bad this thing isn't working. I wanted to plug everything in this weekend and do the show-and-tell for the wife (read: try to justify the $$$ spent on unnecessary gadgets).

Thanks,
JR

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Installation issues / Re: Two NIC problem

« on: August 15, 2008, 09:34:03 pm »

Thanks for the very quick comment. I tried both dhcp and static setups. The router on the "external" network is setup as a dhcp server and that works fine. Right now, the external network work (192.168.0.x) while the internal network does not. One thing I just noticed is that when I click the "View IP address" (?) button, eth1 does not have a mac address bound to it. This leads me to believe it is still wanting to bind to the disabled NIC and not use the new one (eth2). Is there something hardcoded to use eth0 and eth1 only? Can I edit the mac address so it binds to the new card and not try to load the disabled one?


For clarification, my network looks like this:
Starts with a cable modem and goes into a router. This router provides DHCP services to the LAN in the 192.168.0.0 sub. The MCE is one of those 192.168.0.xxx addresses, static defined, on it's "external" port. On the internal port, no amount of changing from dhcp to static makes a difference as it's always 192.168.80.1. There's not physical connectivity between the internal and external subs. The directors will go on the internal net.

Thanks,
JR

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Installation issues / Two NIC problem

« on: August 15, 2008, 08:34:17 pm »

Hello,

I'm installing 710 on a new box with a Gigabyte motherboard and a couple of embedded Realtek RTL8111C NICs. MCE will not connect to the external NIC (eth0) if the internal card (eth1) is enabled. I thought it was something with the two built-in cards but each of them connect fine under another OS and diagnostics. After hours of working this problem, I disabled one of the cards and installed a separate NIC on the PCI port (eth2). It was only then that MCE connected to the external port but now the internal port doesn't work.

Note that when I first finished installing MCE, eth0 was assigned to the internal network. I thought this was the problem and ran the "swap" button in the admin screen. That made external to be eth0 and internal eth1 but this change did nothing to get external to connect.

If possible, I'd like to have my directors on a separate segment than the rest of the network. Any hints?

Thanks,
JR

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Users / Re: Video card for 1080i output

« on: August 11, 2008, 07:22:19 pm »

Hello Dave,

It's amazing how I managed to pick all the wrong hardware for this 8-)

I think I found a 2.6 kernel driver for the RealTek RTL8111C:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#2. Thanks for the video card word. If I can make the core go, I'll try the MD with a nicer video card and try component output to start.

If none of this works, I may simply use HDHomeRun alone until the hardware is supported. That said, I will try the install when I get all the parts by the end of this week.

Thanks,
JR

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Users / Re: Video card for 1080i output

« on: August 11, 2008, 03:48:06 pm »

Hello and thanks for your comments. Sorry the thread is now so far from the subject line; I appreciate the help though.

Dave, the board is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R. I chose this one because it has 5 PCIe and 2 PCI slots, and 2 giga ethernet ports built-in which I thought would be good for a core. I'm slightly disappointed that I won't be able to run the system at 64-bit or use all cores even since I picked this board and CPU with that purpose in mind. I guess I should have read bit more before jumping in. But no sweat, I'm sure it will run fine, especially because the tuners will be external - thanks Thom for the suggestion.

I also bought a cheap nVidia card for the core even when it will function strictly as such. I'll lurk around here some more to see what's a good video card for the directors. I've seen some folks running even with modest video cards but I'd rather over spec it and not have that be a limiting factor in the future. Any hints on what's best for up to 1080i display via DVI or component port?

Thanks,
JR