[mythtvnz] 18.04 and mythtv

[Karl]

Never used Kodi with Mythtv so not sure sorry. But at least you have mythtv
working on 18.04. I might look at what is different in going to 18.04
native versus upgrade path from 16.04->17.04. Is there any bugs issued
under on google searches?

Cheers, Karl

On 7 May 2018 at 10:09, Mark Kendall <markk at kc.net.nz> wrote:

> After not having a TV aerial or working MythTV for over a year I recently
> got it going again.  I haven't upgraded my server/front ent combo yet but
> it is running MythTV 0.29.
>
>
>
> On a ZOTAC ION front end I decided to do a fresh install from DVD the day
> after 18.04 was realeased and used a new hard drive just in case I wanted
> to swap back.  The new install was a failure, initially due to timezone
> issues, after much googling and finding something similar I discovered that
> by unplugging the network cable it got past the timezone issue but failed
> later on for some other reason.  USB install also didn't work (didn't even
> boot properly).  I gave up on the fresh install, put the old disk back in
> and upgraded from 17.04->17.10->18.04 with little problem, think I had to
> install newer libcec library and then setup some key bindings for HDMI
> remote to work (via pulse eight adapter which was previously probably using
> lirc and cec-utils)
>
>
>
> A problem I had with MythTV 0.29:  Apart from some recent recordings last
> month all the other recordings  (which were over a year old) were marked
> with DELETEPENDING=1 in the database.  Because of this they appeared on the
> webserver but not in the MythTV client nor in the newer web interface.
> Initially I thought I had stuffed something up as I had SQL deleted huge
> numbers of failed recordings.
>
>
>
> A newly setup Android KODI client also connected to my MythTV 0.29 server
> via the PVR plugin but unfortunately has since been problematic.
> Previously the other two KODI clients (Windows and Linux) I tried locked up
> while trying to retrieve recordings.  Does anyone know if KODI has trouble
> with lots of recording files (I've trimmed the number of recordings held by
> MythTV down to a little over 800)
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> *From:* mythtvnz <mythtvnz-bounces at lists.ourshack.com> *On Behalf Of *Karl
> *Sent:* Sunday, 6 May 2018 8:59 p.m.
> *To:* mythtvnz at lists.ourshack.com
> *Subject:* [mythtvnz] 18.04 and mythtv
>
>
>
> I thought I'd be premature and try the new 18.04 Ubuntu bionic on a unit I
> had version 28 running perfectly on 16.04. Has anyone been successful with
> getting mythtv (29) on bionic? It being a little temperamental. I got it up
> and showing tv, recording etc. But then on reboot lost connection to backed
> master. Tried all sorts of things checking logs, recreating the tuners.
> Anyone had any luck?
>
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