In Kaffeine, under television > channels, the start scan button is not active. The card is there in Yast with a supporting driver. What am I missing? Thanks in advance.
Have you loaded the firmware for the card? My money is on you finding a series of “waiting for firmware download … failed” messages in your kernel log (see the output of “dmesg”). lol!
If that is the case, use the “get_dvb_firmware” to acquire the nxt2004 firmware, if you haven’t before. Place it in /lib/firmware. After that you should be good to go.
Hmm. Perhaps it wasn’t a case of missing firmware that you were facing (though, IIRC, such a case does produce similar results)… I too ran into this – I don’t know how long it had been like that, but when I went to do a channel scan last night, I found that the button was greyed out. Anyway, moving the ~/.kde4/share/apps/kaffeine/ folder fixes that issue … when you next start kaffeine, a new folder will be autogenerated.
In order to preserve an existing channel list, you can try moving the old file containing your channels listings (sqlite.db) into the new autogenerated folder. I believe the individual channels are linked to a particular device by way of the name you have given it under the “Configure Television” section. {Under the previous configuration I had the device setup as “Atsc”. But when I set it up last night, after moving the old folder, I gave the device a name of “ATSC” … but then, after moving the new sqlite.db file and putting the old sqlite.db file back into the new folder, received a message, upon startup of the dvb module, that no devices were found. Changing the “ATSC” to “Atsc” name quickly resolves that.}
Speaking of sqlite databases, there is a neat little Firefox plugin that allows the user to edit such a db, like the ~/.kde4/share/apps/kaffeine/sqlite.db channel listings file:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sqlite-manager/