[mythtvnz] Installing MythBuntu 14.04: A happy success story

[Nick Rout]

DVB-S or DVB-T?

Freeview DVB-S has pretty comprehensive EIT.

Freeview DVB-T has only now and next last time I looked into it. Maybe
that has changed.



On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:51 AM, worik <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:
> tl;dr A fresh install of 14.04 was a breeze with just a little bit of
> specialised knowledge and it found scheduling information for  week with
> just EiT(? What ever FreeView transmits).
>
>
> I am a grumpy old man sometimes, and I have been quick to find fault
> with MythTV - its complexity and fragility.
>
> Over the last two days, as part of my programme to to get a MythTV
> system that actually works I installed MythBuntu 14.04 on a cheap second
> hand computer (using SATA II) as a dedicated back end and the front end
> on a little acer Veriton (I bought from some one on this list - thank you).
>
> Wow!  It was painless and very effective!
>
> What is really exciting is all the scheduling information for every
> channel is getting pulled in, from some where.  I have not installed
> tv_grab_nz-py.
>
> One reason it went so well is I new how to tell the back end about my
> tuners and I new where to find the MySQL password on the backend to give
> it to the front end.  So Myth is still a little way from being a
> "consumer appliance" but it is close.
>
> After my sad adventures in using an Intel NuPC and a NFS NAS which was
> disastrous (I actually suspect the NAS is a PoS - I would love to hear
> of some one who has had success using NFS mounted drives) I am a happy
> camper today.
>
> I still have to move the discs from the NAS to my new (albeit second
> hand) box which may well become a world of pain, but I am going to let
> this one full up first to see how it copes as disc space runs low.
>
> toodle pip
> W
>
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