Run mythsetup after installation
Submitted by acodring on December 28, 2005 - 8:24pm
Hey,
I'm thinking about capturing video from the baseband video inputs on my PVR150 as a way to archive our old Hi8 analog home videos.
I think the first thing I need to do is run mythsetup to add the inputs, but I'm not sure of the safest way to do that.
If I ESC out of mythfrontend and log in as root it takes me through the initial configuration scripts. I don't imagine I want to do that - it makes me think it's going to change/break important things when it asks if I want a frontend/backend or OS only install...
I tried various combinations to run mythsetup remotely over VNC, but can only succeed from a terminal as a user other than mythtv.
Basically, my question is what's the best way to run mythsetup?
Thanks!
Andrew
If you wanting to add more
If your wanting to add more inputs then you want to run mythtvsetup. It sounds like your running the tuners.pl script which is NOT what you want as this may very well screw things up. Not really sure if mythtvsetup is want you want but then again I'm not familiar with what your wanting to do either.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
Yes, I think adding more
Yes, I think adding more inputs through mythtvsetup is what I want to do. My trouble is running it on the mythdora machine.
Since it does autologin and automatically runs mythfrontend, I don't get a chance to run mythtvsetup.
If I quit out of mythfrontend, it goes back to the login screen and 'auto-everythings' back into mythfrontend.
The 'autoeverything'ness is fabulous 99% of the time when I just want to watch tv or use other myth features, but my question is how do I get around it to run mythtvsetup once without breaking everything.
I had a look around at the startup scripts and noticed you use .startupkey to determine if things have run before.
Would it be safe to delete that file? Would that get it to run mythtvsetup once, or would it also run tuners.pl then?
Thanks!
Andrew
God no!!! You don't want to
God no!!! You don't want to mess with any of that. If you open those up you can read not to do this unless you really know what your doing. Uuuh why don't you just exit mythfrontend, then choose session at the top of that page and then get into xterm. This has been covered quite alot on this subject.
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
As an additional note
As an additional note couldn't you just do a:
cat /dev/video0 > /video/test.mpg (replacing video0 with whatever input you use)
from the console to directly capture video? I'm not sure what benefit there would be to use myth to capture video from another device or how that would work. This way might allow you to just hit play on your camcorder/vcr or whatever and capture to one big file and do what you want with it afterwards. Obviously you'd still need to get to an xterm or ssh in to do it (see ding's message above or the threads for how to get to an xterm)
Ben