Opened 15 years ago
Closed 15 years ago
Last modified 15 years ago
#9626 closed Bug Report - General (Won't Fix)
No cpature cards configured shouldn't block the backend from running
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | unknown |
| Component: | MythTV - General | Version: | 0.24-fixes |
| Severity: | medium | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Ticket locked: | no |
Description
Previous versions of MythTV (0.23 and earlier) allowed the backend to run without any capture card defined.
This allows the user to install the packages, use the software a little bit (albeit without TV functions, just videos, music, pictures) and then configure TV later.
I know there is now a dummy capture card, but it doesn't make sense to set that for all default installs.
Just commenting out the scheduler code that throws an error allows the backend to run. The frontend actually tells the user when they go to watch TV that no capture card is defined.
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Change History (3)
Changed 15 years ago by
| Attachment: | allow_no_tuners.patch added |
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comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by
| Resolution: | → Won't Fix |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by
OK, thanks for that confirmation. Not to start a thorough discussion in trac, but would you mind documenting the other areas known to break?
Tunerless backends were never an officially supported mode of operation, and there are other parts of MythTV that are known to not work properly with no tuners. That's why this 'flaw' was not corrected last year when it was first introduced. With the current plan of replacing mythtv-setup with a webserver integrated into mythbackend, mythbackend will be required to function in a tunerless mode in order to be configured, and this issue will be resolved at that time.