[mythtvnz] Can't run mythtv-setup

Paul Kendall paul at kcbbs.gen.nz
Thu Mar 26 08:19:29 GMT 2009


On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:09:48 Jim Cheetham wrote:
> When I try to run mythtv-setup, I get a nice themed page telling me
> about these errors :-
>
> {{{
> Card 13 (type DVBInput) is set to start on channel 1036, which does not
> exist. Card 14 (type DVBInput) is set to start on channel 1930, which does
> not exist.
>
> Do you want to fix these problems?
>
> Yes please
> No, I know what I am doing
> }}}
>
> Selecting "Yes please" doesn't work, as I'm immediately dumped back at
> the same page (a slight flicker on X tells me that it's been redrawn).
> Selecting "No, ..." doesn't work, as mythtv-setup then exits (asking
> me to run mythfilldatabase, etc)
>
> In /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log I see
>
> {{{
> 2009-03-26 21:06:10.395 DVBChan(13:1) Error: SetChannelByString(1036):
> CheckChannel failed.
>                         Please verify the channel in the
> 'mythtv-setup' Channel Editor.
> 2009-03-26 21:06:10.418 DVBChan(13:1) Warning: Your frequency setting
> (12483000) is out of range. (min/max:950000/2150000)
> 2009-03-26 21:06:10.428 ChannelBase(13) Warning: Setting start channel
> '1036' failed,
>                         selected to '1036' on input 'DVBInput' instead.
> 2009-03-26 21:06:10.439 DVBChan(14:0) Error: SetChannelByString(1930):
> CheckChannel failed.
>                         Please verify the channel in the
> 'mythtv-setup' Channel Editor.
> 2009-03-26 21:06:10.450 DVBChan(14:0) Warning: Your frequency setting
> (12483000) is out of range. (min/max:950000/2150000)
> 2009-03-26 21:06:10.461 ChannelBase(14) Warning: Setting start channel
> '1930' failed,
>                         selected to '1930' on input 'DVBInput' instead.
> }}}
>
> Now, originally the channels that were discovered from the dish
> (Freeview) were numbered "1036" and things like that. I changed them
> to "1", "2", "3" etc ... by using the mythweb interface. Obviously
> I've broken something along the way ... but where can I go to fix it?
>
> -jim

Go into mythtv-setup and in the "Input Connections" you need to change the 
"Starting Channel" for each card.

PK



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