Install mythfrontend

In order to verify that it is correct, go ahead and retrieve the listings. This menu is rather self-explanatory. All you need to do is pick an input on the capture card and tell myth which video source it connects to. Most users will select their tuner and leave all the other inputs alone. Satellite users will select a video input, and on the next page provide the command to change channels on their STB using an external channel change program.

This is also outside the scope of this article. The kernel takes time to register the frontend devices such as those of TurboSight TBS 62x1 and they may not be available when systemd starts mythbackend. This leads to the following error recorded in the system log:. The solution consists in starting the mythbackend. Compared to the backend, getting a frontend running is trivially simple.

The frontend machine needs permission to access the database on the backend machine. On the backend machine, follow the instructions to grant remote access in the MySQL archlinux wiki. On the frontend machine, install the mythtv pacakages using pacman as above. Afterward, make sure you are in an X environment as a normal user and run mythfrontend.

It will pop up a menu asking about the IP address of the backend and the local computer's name and IP address. Fill in this information and your frontend should be functional. On the other hand, the frontend has more options than a luxury car. All of those are an article on their own. There are a few notable options that should be set to ensure a good working setup.

If you do not have an interlaced monitor and almost nobody does , you will need to deinterlace your television output. Go into the TV playback menu and select kernel deinterlacing or bob2x deinterlacing. Try both and see which you like better. Also, in the general settings page, it is good to set up your [Alsa setup] settings, but those vary so greatly it is not worth suggesting values here. One problem I encountered running mythfrontend 0.

People were blue-skinned etc. It turns out there is a hack for ATI cards in the source, but it is not enabled. Take a look at them. Simply installing the package on the frontend computer should impart the intended functionality.

There is rarely any additional setup, and when there is, the install file will mention it. MythWeb is a web interface for MythTV. Be sure to have a look at MythTV's extensive wiki documentation on how to keep your data stores happy, as well as optimize your system in various other ways to get the most out of your Myth box.

Install your Linux distribution using the individual install instructions for that distribution. There are links on the Operating System page. The SELinux Troubleshooting tool gives errors that httpd wants to access these directories. To allow httpd read permission:. Some capture card drivers have been included by default with Fedora. You can check if the kernel is able to detect the attached dvb tuner by checking the kernel messages.

This is done with:. Otherwise you will need to find the chipset details of the attached tuner. If you have a usb attached tuner use lsusb or if you have a PCI tuner use lspci. Many remote control drivers have been moved to the kernel but manual key mapping may still be desired. This can be achieved by installing the v4l-utils package for the ir-keytable command.

Once v4l-utils has successfully installed you can check to see what protocol and keymap that the current remote control has by runnning:. To test the key mappings run the following command that will capture the input and button name of each keypress. Be sure to comment out the original mappings in case an error is made during the file modification and re-load the keymap using:. If your remote control does not exist in the kernel and you don't get any output in ir-keytable -t then you will have to install LIRC.

This will install the Linux Infra-Red Control package. This is a daemon which translates infra-red key presses into keyboard events, therefore you will need to configure your remote control accordingly.

In Fedora 20, mySQL has been replaced with MariaDB but backwards compatibility is maintained such that the following commands should still be applicable. We'll need to enable MariaDB to load at startup, set some passwords and create the MythTV database which we'll populate shortly. The population of this database is handled by mythtv-setup in the next step, and all MythTV add-on module database additions must be done after running mythtv-setup at least one time.

Start by enabling automatic load at boot and start the database:. Set the MariaDB root password when prompted and accept all the defaults by pressing enter.

Now we can create the MythTV database called mythconverg to get us started:. Again, all subsequent database population for MythTV's add-on modules must now be done after running mythtv-setup at least one time.

In the event the mythtv-setup fails current in Fedora 20 , it may be because the time zone tables are not loading. See the wiki on the time zones. This entry fixed the problem:. Before going further it is wise to check whether things have worked so far.

To launch the MythTV setup utility search for mythtv in the Activities overview. You should be presented with a graphical interface and you may be required to update the database schema. Now we will move onto assigning the tuners, channels and storage directories. On the test machine this was Set your channel frequency table in the next page and continue to scroll through until you have reached Finished.

In order for MythTV to record a stream, you must firstly setup the capture devices. This is under 2. Capture Cards. Do this for each available capture device. Once the capture devices have been created successfully and you have decided between SchedulesDirect or using EIT to schedule recordings, a video source is required. Create a video source under 4. Video sources and give it a name e. In the next section 5.

Input Connections assign each capture device a display name adapterX and a video source. The selected capture device will now scan for available channels. Once complete, a summary of the channels is given, select Insert All and Finish.

In many parts of the world the program guide data is transmitted free over the air and is used by MythTV to schedule recordings and provide program information EIT.

However if you are in the US, you will may need a paid account with schedulesdirect. This will give you television feed data that your Mythbox uses for scheduling once you have localized your account to your zip code, chosen a content provider service and then set your channels from the web page. There may be duplicate channels that can be removed safely and allows for less clutter for the backend to deal with when scheduling. There may be icons available for you to download using Download icons option.

The storage directories can be configured in 7. Storage Directories. However, you can do pretty much whatever you like here, such as recording to an NFS or Samba mount.

Just make sure your mythtv user has permission to read and write to whatever location you choose. It is highly recommended that you go through the above setup steps in order. Follow the on-screen instruction, with aid from the MythTV website documentation where required.

Once you've gone through the setup, you have to populate the MythTV database with some program info. Once you have your listings to your liking, you're ready to fill your database with programming info.

You must start up the backend first and we'll set it to autostart later. Enter the following command in a terminal:. Assuming all goes well and the process doesn't exit on you if it does, check out the troubleshooting section below , lets get some guide data, in a new terminal window type:.

If you're using a guide data source other than SchedulesDirect i. Run gdmsetup. This will make the bootup a lot more streamlined especially for HTPC use Next, add yourself and any other users that need MythTV acces to the mythtv group. Right click the desktop and log out of the openbox session. Right click the desktop and choose "Exit". Set the newly created MythTV session to be the default. This will make sure that on the next reboot, MythTV comes up by default.

At the bottom left, choose Options. When Given a list of sessions, choose MythTV. Choose "Make Default". Note: at least one user had difficulties logging out of the openbox session to return to the login screen. If you encounter similar issues, you should try to first restart GDM.