[mythtv-users] Why does the log report 'No PIDS set, please correct your channel setup.' ?

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 11:56:54 UTC 2005


On 31/08/05, ffrr <ffrr at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> Even though this is a working system, sometimes it decides it can't
> record a show, or even show live TV.  The log has entries like...
> 
> 2005-08-31 19:40:20.282 DVB#0 Recorder: Card opened successfully (using
> TS mode).
> 2005-08-31 19:40:20.283 DVB#0 ERROR - No PIDS set, please correct your
> channel setup.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:21.300 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:22.302 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:23.304 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:24.306 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:25.308 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:26.309 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:27.311 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:28.313 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:29.315 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:30.317 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 2005-08-31 19:40:31.332 DVB#0 WARNING - No data from card in 1 second.
> 
> 
> 
> Stopping and restarting the backend got it going again.   I don't
> understand.  It seems to be complaining about a misconfiguration, but,
> if that was correct, just restarting the backend wouldn't fix it.
> 
> Please help, it's getting annoying that myth is unreliable.  I can't
> trust it to capture my shows for me.

I got this error when I swapped channel numbers around (to get the
channels to appear in a logical order on the program guide).

I assumed that it was a problem with the 'startchannel' because when I
fiddled with that also, my system started working again. 
Unfortunately I didn't record exactly what I was doing so there's a
risk that something else I did caused the problem and fix.


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