Hi,
I've got mythTV running well on an Asus Pundit-R with a Nova-T PCI card and I can receive all the Freeview TV channels no problem.

What I want to do is tune into the Freeview radio stations too. I have manually inserted details for BBC Six Music and Radio 2, but can't get any sound going. I suspect the mythbackend is refusing to give me just the sound without any broadcast pictures.

Anyone using their DVB card to receive radio? How do you hack/patch/fool mythtv into performing?

I have a Sony Freeview box (can't recall the model off-hand), and when it is tuned to a radio station it shows the station logo (might be hardwired), and sometimes shows details of the current show or even the current song playing. I haven't worked out whether this is part of the EPG or another broadcast stream (for want of a better word) that the Sony knows how to display.

Would be great if mythTv could do this trick too.

Are radio stations broadcast via DVB in Australia too?

With MythTV I've been able to remove my VCR and DVD player from the living room. Once I have the radio stations playing I'll be able to get rid of my Freeview box too ...

Has anybody done this???

There is a patch for 0.19 to use the DVB-T radio channels in the UK. I don't think it works with the current release of knoppmyth though.

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I've done this, it works well, but I believe it will only work with mythtv 0.19 (I may be wrong about that, however. I don't have 0.18 to check it anymore)
you need to get the patch for mythtv 0.19,
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/8948
I've applied this to 0.19 fixes subversion branch myself.
Note that it will fail around the line

so you'll need to have a look at libs/libmythtv/dbcheck.cpp and check what you need to change, it's just a question of finding the relevant database version number.
I'd be more specific,but I'm not at home at the moment.
After that, it's pretty seamless, you need to do a rescan for channels and check the "include radio" (or similar) checkbox thats been added, et voila.

It basically adds a dummy video stream to the radio audio stream so myth treats it as it would any video, I believe. I use projectX to demux any recordings I've made and just keep the resulting audio and bin the video.

best of luck with it.

Hmm, i would like to do this too. Any more detailed instructions for R5B7?

Thanks

I decided to try this myself and succeeded - it was really quite simple:

1. cd /usr/src/mythtv/source
2. su
3. tar -xjvf mythtv-0.19-fixes.tar.bz2
4. cd mythtv-0.19-fixes
5. svn diff -r 8946:8948 http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythtv | patch -p0
6. patch -p0 < ../knoppmyth_tv_0.19.0-4_i686.diff
7. /configure --arch=i686 --enable-proc-opt --enable-dvb --enable-xvmc --enable-xvmc-pro --enable-opengl-vsync --prefix=/usr
8. qmake mythtv.pro
9. make
10. /etc/init.d/mythtv-backend stop
11. make install
12. mythtv-setup
13. Channel Editor
14. Channel Scanner
15. Edit channel numbers as appropriate

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Dave.

Thanks guys, I patched my 0.19 version today and it works ... very well!

In the channels table, I set useonairguide to 1, and hey presto, the EPG for the next few days appeared.

Cheers
Andrew

OK, so the over-the-air EPG is not so great. I get slight stuttering from the channels with this turned on.

So I started investigating tv_grab_uk_bleb to get the radio station listings. There's only info for 7 days, but it's better than nothing from tv_grab_uk_rt (radio times)!

Has anyone got mythfilldatabase to use both tv_grab_uk_bleb and tv_grab_uk_rt to update the program guide?

Cheers
Andrew

I followed the instructions from "dave1628", and now it wont connect to the backend server.
Also, lots of themes are missing now?

I think those instructions actually update the whole of mythweb to a slightly newer SVN version ????????

svn diff -r 8946:8948

In other words, you *could* get some other changes in addition to the radio support, perhaps also a change to the mythprotocol version number ?

*if* that is the case e.g. I'm not talking total rubbish (regrettably often the case), then that could explain your problem ?

btw, the radio patch only really applies to the backend machine, it make no difference to the frontend.

I have a Nova-T card and followed dave1628's instructions above and it seemed to go ok, i didnt get any obvious errors. However in channel scanner I dont get an extra option (I dont think, just one that lets me choose Free To Air or not). I've tried FTA on and off but I still get lines like:

"Skipping BBC Radio 2 - Radio Service"

Any advice?

-edit...
I've just tried doing it again, and after the patch command it asks: "File to patch:" and whatever i type it throws back an error and asks that again, i have to abort the patch. Is that just because I've already applied it?

Drew

I had the same problem but overcame it. I can't remember how, copy & paste the exact error your getting and we should be able to solve it

It patches a few files absolutely fine and then errors on this one:




But I wouldnt have thought the frontend main menu would stop me from scanning the right channels? I guess its a patch after this one and 'cos it borks here it doesnt patch the channel scanning file. Any suggestions would be great.

Drew

I presumed the latest KnoppMyth dated 18th May i.e 2 months later would therefore have had this patch included. Is this not the case?

I get the "Skipping BBC Radio 2 - Radio Service" messages but can see no option to 'include' radio services. Where exactly should this option appear?