On 2018-07-20 17:15, Dave Howorth wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:54:34 +0100 Dave Howorth <> wrote:
But I have no idea how to start. I've read various things on the web but not found any that seem to apply directly.
Some years ago I installed mythtv to some degree of working, I could see the TV. I remember I could pause and later continue from that point watching at, say, 5% faster speed to try recover a bit of the lost time. Cute.
But I do not remember how I did it. There where howtos and things. Not very difficult but confusing. Then the TV card died, could not find a working replacement, and bought an external TV box instead.
Recently I tried again, but not having a TV card the setup refused to proceed. I wanted to use it to see already recorded movies or internet TV. No go. I uninstalled it.
Bjoern Voigt said 2017-11-27:
Do not try MythTV 0.27. It is very old. Try MythTV 0.28 (the Packman mythtv packages without a number) or 29.
I believe there's a database involved and I installed mariadb but I notice that there's no database server running. Is that normal? How does one start a database server these days? Edit: Ah, I found Services Manager in YaST and enabled and started mariadb. (Why is there no help in Services Manager?)
Yes, it is a system wide database, not a local to mythtv database. It is possible that you have to initialize it, there should be a script. I can not look, my packages are no longer installed.
Looking at my command history:
use mythtvsetup as root You will need "mythbackend.service"
Per helped me with the setup, but he is on holiday now. Lookup for this thread:
2017-11-30 04:12 To: OS-en [opensuse] How does one setup mythtv?
I notice that something has set up a system user 'mythtv' but I don't know exactly how setup is done. Should I su to that user before I start?
No, I don't think so.