Topic: Mythtv warning

[christian]

silly me. My gateway is an SME derivative and intercepts port 443. I'll have to get around to changing that.

try:
https://www.szpilfogel.com:8443/webshare/mythtv/

[ntblade]

Got 'em!
Thanks
NTB

[ntblade]

OK,
Had some problems...
Setup on vmware VM, clean 7.4 CD install, yum update:
Connecting to VM via putty, Xming.
Whe I do:

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mythtv-setupI was unable to completely run through the setup as the G.A.N.T. Theme was not found. Started again and didn't install the 0-21 themes which allowed me to run the setup but I couldn't run the frontend.  Changing the theme via phpmyadmin to "blue" I'm able to run the backend setup and the frontend but this is all I've tried.

I think I might be best to run a separate knoppmyth machine until 8.0 comes out.

Thanks
N

[christian]

ntblade,
you may enjoy the new how-to I did. But if you are running all of it in VMWare, I was able to run frontend through the VMWare 2 console. I installed KnoppMyth on VM Instance and it works great. I'm still using 0.20.2 for now as I wanted a known config as I moved things around (wanted to preserve my database and all my front end settings). Once it is proven out for me, I will upgrade all to 0.21 base. So far I like this setup better and customizations become more controlled.

Be aware that for Knoppmyth, you will need to configure your hard drive as IDE not SCSI. This stumped me for a bit. Also note that VMWare will not give you access to a PCI capture card.

For proper shutdown, you will also need to install vmware tools.

Christian

[christian]

I was unable to completely run through the setup

If you run it on SME at all (even in a VM), you will need to use X11 forwarding per the How-to. Otherwise you will be installing X all over the place and having fun determining what is missing; just as you've come to discover.

[christian]

I should point in two posts above that I run a Master Backend (no capture cards) in a virtual machine. I run the SME end as a Slave only on the SME itself and connect it up to the master.

[ntblade]

Thanks for the replies,
I did configure X11 forwarding - I'm using Xming on an XP machine.  Both the frontend and backend work but there was still the issue of the themes not being found.

I would really love to have the whole lot on one single box but until my hardware is supported (hopefully in 8.0) I'll run two boxes.

Will you be updating the howto when 8.0 arrives?  I'd be happy to help with testing etc.
Thanks
N

[electroman00]

8beta2 is available if you want to give it a test drive.

HTH

[ntblade]

I did give 8b2 a run but I got a but lost with yum updates and repositories.

N

[electroman00]

Download the rpm's to the machine and yum localinstall

[christian]

I would really love to have the whole lot on one single box but until my hardware is supported (hopefully in 8.0) I'll run two boxes.

Or you could run a master backend as a VM guest and then use it to wake a slave backend for recording. Thus you have a responsive master and power efficiency.

Will you be updating the howto when 8.0 arrives?  I'd be happy to help with testing etc.

Likely yes. though I may be limited to testing only the slave backend aspect of it now so the help will be appreciated.

I must say that now that I use the SME base only for the slave backend a number of complexities have gone away.

Now that I have my database on a VM guest and running mysql5, I'm going to move forward to Myth 0.21-fixes. Once stable, I'm going to work on adding a couple of Hauppauge HD-PVRs!