On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Scott Souter wrote:
> Suddenly everything starts to come together and I got past the splash
> screen. Now the next problem:
>
> I seem to have access to my backend and I can see a list of my recordings.
> When I choose one to watch on the MVP it reboots. What's up with that?
> It
> also complains that I need SQL access enabled on the server to watch live
> TV.
This is what happens when mvpmc goes to try and play mythtv recordings
from the directory you've told it they're located in with the "-r"
parameter and finds they don't exist. It really ought to give an error,
rather than crash out/reboot. Aaanyway, this is probably because the mount
of the /data directory is failing.
Firstly there are 2 different ways of playing files off a MythTV backend,
one is by mounting the recordings over NFS and playing the files directly.
The other is to play the files using MythTV's own internal protocol. There
are various advantages/disadvantages of the 2 methods, but the easiest to
get working is the Myth protocol one. To do that you simply need to remove
the "-r /data" from your command line.
Once that's working and if you want to try to get NFS working then try
telnetting to your mvp, logging in as root, and trying out the NFS mount
command you have in your dongle.config to see what if/why it errors. Try
taking a look in /data using "ls" to see what's in there.
Well I removed the "-r data" and I was able to see my recordings. In an
effort to solve my livetv woes, I tried some of the networking advice
written in these threads as well. I did indeed discover that the mvp
/etc/hosts file has only 127.0.0.1 with localhost. I decided to give my
mythbackend (the tftp server as well) a hostname of mythtv. I also set up a
domain name of sgang.com on my dlink router that handles the dhcp for my
network. I had to run mythtv-setup again and then my frontend on the server
worked. When I look at /etc/hosts on the server (mythtv) it shows the
following
127.0.0.1 mythtv localhost
# generated by drakhosts
which confuses me because the ip of the nic is 192.168.0.50. With these new
changes my mvp can still see a list of the recordings, but when I select
one, it complains of a lost Mythtv connection.
Here is my dongle.bin.config file as it stands
# Setup time and date
TZ='MST+7MDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2' ; export TZ
echo "TZ='MST+7MDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2'; export TZ" > /etc/shell.config;
NTP=pool.ntp.org
# Make the directory for mounting
mkdir /data
mkdir /data/livetv
# and mount it (linux/windows)
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.50:/home/scott/data/ /data/
/etc/nfsmount.sh 192.168.0.50:/home/scott/data/livetv /data/livetv
# Now we invoke mvpmc adding the -F option
mvpmc -f /etc/helvB14.pcf -o composite -S 600 -s 192.168.0.50 -b
/data/livetv -p mythtv -u mythtv -y 192.168.0.50 -T mythconverg
echo "192.168.0.50 mythtv.sgang.com mythtv" >> /etc/hosts
# example to change the std screen font when we boot (useful for 13" sets)
cat <<EOF > /tmp/font_override.xml
<mvpmctheme version="0" name="font override">
/etc/helvB18.pcf
/etc/helvB18.pcf
</mvpmctheme>
EOF
What's up?
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