Tvheadend

ubuntu 12.10
hts 3.5.58 (from stable ppa)

I have done EVERYTHING! It was working, I had to install kernel 3.7, now I've gone back to 3.5 (ubuntu). I purged everything. I installed from this:

https://www.lonelycoder.com/redmine/boards/14/topics/3368

I get only seven services, no muxes have muxIDs.

I'm using hdhomerun. It works fine with the hdhomerun_config_gui from any computer. I can watch programs through vlc.

Is there ANY standard procedure that one goes about to diagnose this type of problem that you see over, and over and over? Namely the 'my map dvb services button is gray', "I have no services", or (in my case) I'm not getting any real services. This problem seems to happen so frequently that there must be something fundamental with the gui (or error reporting) that is not obvious to enough people because you can search google for probably hundreds of examples of this problem ( http://goo.gl/2mRAB ).

Sorry if this sounds angry but I am at my wit's end and need to vent. I've spent 2 days trying to get this working, learning about modinfo, version 0.0.13 v.s. 0.0.15, which ppas to install, compiling everything form source, why doesn't 3.7 have the dvb_demux.h header, launching everything in daemon, checking real time logs, checking permissions on /dev/dvb, wondering what user should be running these daemons. I still can't be certain if the problem is with dvbhdhomerun or with tvheadend (. Maybe someone can suggest something, but if not, I might just bite the bullet and install mediaportal,nextpvr.

Thanks!