<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Hadley Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hads@nice.net.nz" target="_blank">hads@nice.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 26/10/12 17:26, Nick Rout wrote:<br>
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OK now DON"T F***ING TOUCH THE SETUP!!!!!<br>
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LOL just joking, but there is a lot of value in a working system<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br>There are two camps. The are those who want their MythTV system to be an appliance and there are those who want to treat it like software system. Not touching a working setup is seriously good advice if you are in the first camp, as I am. That is why I am still running 0.24 on a 2.6.35 kernel. As far as I am concerned, updates are only worthwhile for new features, and given the amount of pain and time an update can involve those features had better be major. Bug fixes don't interest me unless I've hit the bug myself. Security patches don't interest me - the system is not accessible from the net (ok, it is, but it's behind a VPN so it is only the security of the VPN I need to worry about).<br>
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Good advice, I rarely go into MythTV-Setup, it's scary how easy it is to mess up a working system in there. </blockquote><div><br>The problem is not mythtv-setup. The problem is understanding how everything works and what applies to you and what doesn't. The information is out there but it's not always easy to find. Personally I've found the wiki to be the best place to start.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Just by trying to add a new channel. No wonder so many people resort to editing the database.<br></blockquote><div>
<br>Fixing it up in the database doesn't work if you then let something else screw it up again. In this case is that the channels were being populated two ways - from the grabber via mythfilldatabase and from the channel scan in mythtv-setup. You should really stick to one method or the other. It was further complicated by the fact that the grabber relies on a config file that depends on the user the grabber is run as. Having to know about these gotchas is what makes it difficult at times.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>