Unable to access MythTV Perl API. Try with –verbose to find out why.

I have been getting the error message

Unable to access MythTV Perl API. Try with –verbose to find out why.

on MythTv running on Ubuntu 8.04. It wasn’t bothering me too much because the TV guide was still being updated. Also I believe this is something to do with MythTV-Status only which prints out in the console what is being recorded (if any), next up coming recording and the amount of available space.

The problem is the MythTv-Status program is ran on a schedule and is requires the config.xml in the ~/.mythtv directory to be copied or a symbolic link in /root/.mythtv Run the following commands to solve the problem:
$ sudo mkdir /root/.mythtv
$ sudo ln -s ~/.mythtv/config.xml
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mythtv-status reload

The last command will run MythTv-Status to read the new configuration XML file and run without any errors.

The only problem it has caused is that it does not say how many days worth or TV guide it has where as before this fix it specified it with errors.

Unable to access MythTV Perl API. Try with –verbose to find out why. Ubuntu Forum

About Danny

I.T software professional always studying and applying the knowledge gained and one way of doing this is to blog. Danny also has participates in a part time project called Energy@Home [http://code.google.com/p/energyathome/] for monitoring energy usage on a premise. Dedicated to I.T since studying pure Information Technology since the age of 16, Danny Tsang working in the field that he has aimed for since leaving school. View all posts by Danny → This entry was posted in Linux and tagged MythTV, mythtv-status, perl, T.V, tv guide, Ubuntu, ubuntu 8.04, XML. Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to Unable to access MythTV Perl API. Try with –verbose to find out why.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.