[mythtvnz] MythTV problems after moving house & installing new Frontend/Backend server

[Paulgir]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:27:10 +1200, Chris Macneill <cmacneill at zelan.co.nz>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having a few problems with a new Frontend/Backend server I  
> implemented after moving house. The old location had Terrestrial  
> >Freeview, but the new location is Satellite Freeview only. I was having  
> some niggling problems with the old server, after a reboot >Frontend  
> would take 20 to 30 minutes to appear after X started and it was running  
> low on hard disc space, so decided to implement a >new server.
> The new server worked fine at the old house as a standalone, but now I  
> try to use at new location and integrate into my Home Theatre >setup I  
> get two problems:-
>
>> 1. I get no reception on the TBS 6805 tuner card despite the MythTV  
>> Channel Setup saying at least as good signal strength as at the >old  
>> house and was working fine at old house. When I insert my Satellite  
>> Signal Meter (cheap $25 moving coil meter type) into the >feeder, I get  
>> good signal strength AND suddenly the TBS card picks up channels  
>> ???!!!! Is this some kind of impedance matching issue >that the meter  
>> is solving? I have a replacement LNB I could try, but as it's a rented  
>> house I don't want to fiddle with the dish >unless I have to.
>
> 2. When MythTV server is connected direct to TV, it works OK, but when I  
> connect my Home Theatre Amp in between, after turning off Amp >at night,  
> when powering up Amp next day, I now get no picture or sound unless I  
> reboot MythTV server. All connections are HDMI. TV and >Amp are same as  
> at old house, but obviously server has changed. It was initially using  
> the builtin graphics for the Motherboard, but >have also tried a Nvidia  
> 9200 with latest Nvidia drivers that has been known to work in the past.  
> My suspicions are X is turning off >video output when Amp is turned off  
> and fails to turn back on when Amp is turned back on. When I reboot  
> MythTV server, Mythbuntu >splash screen shows as it's shutting down, so  
> something is kicking graphics back into life. Maybe there's something in  
> the setup of >the new MythTV server that I've done differently, but with  
> so many settings it's going to be tedious to do a side by side check.
> Hardware is:-
>
> TV: Panasonic Plasma
> Amp: Denon
> MythTV: 0.27, Ubuntu 14.04 (Mythbuntu distro)
>
> Anyone with any pointers as to what to try to resolve these issues?
>
>
>
>> -- Regards Chris Macneill
Problem 2 sounds like what my system did if I started myth before the TV  
(Panasonic) was running.Myth could not get EDID from the TV when it was  
off.I fixed it using this  
Howto:http://kodi.wiki/view/Creating_and_using_edid.bin_via_xorg.conf
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