MythTV UPnP broken?

**thegriff** · November 19th, 2010, 02:26 PM

I wish I could say I did something to get it working, but I have not. I simply browse network sources -> UPNP -> Entry for Myth -> Recordings -> Title.

The one thing that MAY have changed is the version of MythTV. Once I upgraded to .24 last week I turned development updates on and it's possible an update came through that fixed something on the back end.

**schmedigans** · November 19th, 2010, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by thegriff

I wish I could say I did something to get it working, but I have not. I simply browse network sources -> UPNP -> Entry for Myth -> Recordings -> Title.

The one thing that MAY have changed is the version of MythTV. Once I upgraded to .24 last week I turned development updates on and it's possible an update came through that fixed something on the back end.

Maybe .24 has changed something. I'm still running 0.23 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'm running LTS for a reason, so upgrading isn't an option for me. The thing is, Boxee 0.9 on every other system in the house works perfectly.

**hackztor** · November 19th, 2010, 04:13 PM

lol wait until the return date for all these units and then we will see how much gets done to the box when they know users cannot return it.

Originally Posted by schmedigans

Wow. These guys are on the ball. With everything they have happening right now, Avner just got back to me in about 20 min. I'm very impressed.

THIS is why I'll be keeping my Boxee Box

**dconti** · November 19th, 2010, 07:57 PM

Hey guys, wanted to follow up on this.

I have a ubuntu 10.04 box and installed mythtv the easy way (apt-get install mythtv). It set up the upnp server by default and i copied a few sample files into my videos directory and was able to play them. So we work ok with the core server at least.

It looks like it installed 0.23 for me

I didn't try with recordings, as i don't have a tuner or a method of making recordings at all. So i'm guessing it is something specific to how myth presents the recording info to us - it probably constructs the metadata from the database.

Just to check, this fails for everyone when they click on the recording, and before it opens the dialog offering to let you play?

Will keep on working at it.

**schmedigans** · November 19th, 2010, 08:53 PM

Dan, thanks for the follow up.

For me, it fails when I click play. I'm able to browse the content with no problem. The categories are presented as you would expect from myth. I even see all the thumbs when browsing which verifies the content matches the category.

And again, it all works perfectly in 0.9.

**sebj** · November 19th, 2010, 10:40 PM

exactly the same as schmedigans

I've played the files directly through samba and the playback is really nice, so it's too bad boxee can't using upnp.

I wanted to go for mythtv 0.24, but it doesn't seem to be compatible with xbmc quite yet so I'm holding off.

Really important feature for mythtv based households and WAF

**schmedigans** · November 20th, 2010, 05:38 AM

Originally Posted by sebj

exactly the same as schmedigans

I've played the files directly through samba and the playback is really nice, so it's too bad boxee can't using upnp.

I wanted to go for mythtv 0.24, but it doesn't seem to be compatible with xbmc quite yet so I'm holding off.

Really important feature for mythtv based households and WAF

What he said

Another thing Dan, Was the ability to add a myth://[ip] video source removed intentionally? Is so, will it be back? If not, will it be fixed?
The ability to watch live tv in Boxee is priceless, and gives me the ability to put these things anywhere, not just where there's an existing tv with a cable drop. --Thanks

**schmedigans** · November 20th, 2010, 10:16 AM

From this thread:
http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=22105&page=4

post #33 is pointing to a repository that has a telnet app. After installing the repo, I find he also has a MythBoxee app.

Trying now... I'll update with the results.

**schmedigans** · November 25th, 2010, 05:46 PM

Well that solved my problem. MythBoxee works very well so far. It's still a young project, so it will only get better.

see http://erikkristensen.com/project/mythboxee

There's full requirements/instructions and some screenshots at the bottom of the page. You will need to be running myth 0.23.1 for it to work with the BB, but the dev is working on a solution to be able to support 0.23.0 and 0.24.

**klyndt** · December 10th, 2010, 08:12 PM

I'm not really interested in the app. I need to have the UPNP interface work so I can check other MythTV frontends. I was able to see and explore the backend server from the Local Sources section on a Windows version of Boxee (0.9.23.15885). I checked the boxes for Videos, Pics and Music. Then I added the source. When I escape back to the Settings Local Files menu it shows my server as Disconnected. Why?

If I go back to the main screen and click on the Photos icon, I get my MythTV server (0.23) as one of the choices (this doesn't happen for Movies or Music). When I select the server, I can explore my Music, Recordings, and Videos folders. I can play stuff out of all of these folders. So it appears like it is working functionally, but not really.

Why does it only work out of the Photos area? What is wrong with the Music and Movies area? Why is the server marked as disconnected, yet I can still use it? I'm not convinced MythTV or Boxee is set up correctly, but it has to be close.

Thanks for any help,
Klyndt