Topic: Mythtv warning

[christian]

As I was rebuilding my server today on 7.3, I noted that ATRPM no longer has mythtv 0.20.2 which was the last version to support mysql4. Only > 0.21 is available now from ATRPM which requires mysql5.

I've update the How-to accordingly.

I do have the 0.20.2 rpms available (luckily I had them in my yum cache) if someone needs them. This would be the easier path for you until SME 8 is available.

I would recommend against updating to mysql5 before SME 8.

Christian

[ntblade]

Hi Christian,
How do I get the required RPMs please?
Norrie.

[electroman00]

Which Howto did you update.??

There are a number of MythTV articles in the wiki.

Then others will know exactly and collaborate with you on it.

[christian]

Which Howto did you update.??

There are a number of MythTV articles in the wiki.

Then others will know exactly and collaborate with you on it.

To my knowledge, there is only one: http://wiki.contribs.org/MythTV

You can find it by the above link or looking into the "How To" section of the wiki.

There is a depricated version which was removed from the wiki by RequestedDeletion when I created this version; though it may still be found through searches.

If you do know of other versions available via a method other than search then let me know, I'll take care of it.

Christian

[christian]

Hi Christian,
How do I get the required RPMs please?
Norrie.

I have them if you need them but you may also find them in your yum cache in an existing system.

try also

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find / -name mythtv\* -print

 If you can't find them then I will make arrangements with the contribs team to put them somewhere on contribs.org.

Christian

[ntblade]

Thanks for the quick reply,
I don't have them in an old cache so if you could talk to the team that would be great.  Would I just do a yum local-install then?

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[christian]

  Would I just do a yum local-install then?

yes.

I suspect you are impatient as I was when this happened to me. Losing MythTV is surprisingly difficult to deal with

I'll put it up on my server today so you can get at it.


Cheers,
  Christian

[ntblade]

I'm actually very patient as I've never managed to get it going yet! A combination of unsupported hardware (should be fine in v8.0) and the warning you pointed out plus few other hitches have stumped me.  However, I don't give up easily!

I've tried a couple of the mythtv "distros", knoppmyth, mythdora and mythbuntu.  Of these, knoppmyth seems to be the least bloated but they're not running on the great SME are they?

Thanks,
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[christian]

no. Knoppmyth is loosely based on Knoppix and Debian. I like it and use it a lot for my front ends.

I've also been considering using a VM to run the backend which could be accomplished if you have a USB capture device. In theory XEN will allow a guest to see PCI cards if that is what you are dealing with.

I currently use a PVR500 (works great) but will move to HD-PVR when I have some time.

[ntblade]

I also considered running my mythtv server as a vm.  Only xen has pci passthrough and I've not yet tried xen as a host on sme.  It doesn't seem to be as well documented.

I've two Nova-T cards (the new 90003 ones) that aren't yet supported under 7.3/4 but should be OK when 8 comes out (I wish it were here now)

Cheers,
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[christian]

to get you going, I've put the RPMs here:
https://szpilfogel.com/webshare/mythtv/

user:mythtv
password is the same as the username

Download and then install via:

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yum localinstall mythtv* libmyth* --enablerepo=atrpms --enablerepo=dagThat should be all you need to do.

Christian

[ntblade]

Thanks but:
404 The requested URL /webshare/mythtv/ was not found on this server.
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[christian]

strange. But I was doing some upgrades this afternoon which may hove got in the way.

if you still can't access it now (should all be stable), then send me a private message so we can figure it out.

try also https://www.szpilfogel.com/webshare/mythtv/

to see if it makes a difference. Note the www (shouldn't have made a difference). also ensure you used https.

Christian

[electroman00]

Problem

The requested URL /webshare/mythtv/ was not found on this server.

One soultion
Modindex
http://www.schirrms.net/files/smeserver-modindex-0.0.6-01.noarch.rpm

[ntblade]

Sorry, still 404
N