Tvheadend

Paul Preston wrote:

Ive run this command sudo /usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd --configure and that seemed to work fine. It downloaded a ton of show information. I still not sure how to match up the service to a channel. When I click "Map DVB services to channels" I get the "No Data" error above.

Hi Paul,

I am just guessing, but can you run /usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd as the user running tvheadend ?
(in the example, you run as root, which might be ok for configuration, but the tvheadend user needs to be able to tun it).

alex.

I tried that and I get asked for the password for hts

hts@htpc-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo /usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd --configure
[sudo] password for hts:

I also found this post... looks like about the same problem but they never give an answer.
https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/boards/12/topics/5800

Paul Preston wrote:

I tried that and I get asked for the password for hts

hts@htpc-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo /usr/bin/tv_grab_na_dd --configure
[sudo] password for hts:

I don't think that that commands makes tv_grab run as a regular user (but I am not sure , not using sudo myself..)
Sudo makes "tv_grab_na_dd" run as root.
(since tvheaden is not run as root, tvheadend cannot ( or is not supposed to can) do what you did.)

The question is: Can you run the command as the hts-user?

As it seems , you are loged-in as hts ( since it says hts@htpc-system in your prompt.).
Can you try, as hts-user, running tv_grab_na_dd ( so without sudo ).

Alex.

You must run the XMLTV configure command as the same user id that you run TVH. The default being "hts".

To switch to hts you normally need to go via sudo (since I don't think we set a password for hts):

sudo su - hts
Note: insert YOUR password for sudo

whoami
Note: should return hts

tv_grab_BLAH --configure
Note: BLAH is obviously whatever your grabber script is

Adam

Thanks Adam... I think that fixed the problem but now when I click "add DVB network by location" I get no locations. I did before. What do I do next?

Thanks
Paul

Which version is this? Did you install one of the pre-built debs? or is it a custom build?

What kind of DVB card do you have?

Adam

I Installed with apt-get - Ver 3.2~oneiric

the card is a USB stick -Hauppauge WinTV-HVR850 Model 1200

The tvheadend page calls it this.....Auvitek AU8522 QAM/8VSB Frontend

I did uninstall and re-installed tvheadend - that has fixed the location choices.