[Solved] Cannot watch channel on Raspberry Pi (Please Wait...)

[steve E]

I am trying to run the myth frontend and backend on a raspberry pi 4 (not recommended, I know), and I got everything configured (including scanning for channels) but when I go to the channel guide, select a channel, and then select "Watch this Channel", I get a message: "Please wait..." and it just hangs. I am running Ubuntu 22.10 and myth 32.0+fixes on the Raspberry Pi 4 with a Hauppage WinTV-DualHD tuner. Everything worked fine with this tuner and antenna on an Intel Laptop. Any ideas on what might be wrong? I tried recording a channel too and it would not record. I got an entry for the show but nothing was recorded for it.

[PhilB]

I suggest you establish why recordings are failing before looking at your live tv problem. Remember that livetv is doing a recording behind the scenes.

Have you looked in the backend log? Note the time of failure then

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less /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log

Does it give a clue?
Phil

[jfabernathy]

You may find some help in this post: viewtopic.php?f=46&t=5225

I have used an RPI4 4GB and a HDHomeRun Quatro tuner to record 4 HD programs at the same time while playing a previous recording with mythfrontend. It should work fine.

[steve E]

Thanks for the pointers. I have it working now. It looks like the problem was a simple file permission issue. My mythtv storage directory had 777 permissions but its parent directory was 750 and wasn't in the mythtv group. Once I changed it to 755 everything started working.