[mythtv-users] Tuner not changing channel

[Josh Burks]

I've been playing with this a little, and found a different workaround:

1. rename /etc/rc5.d/S86mythbackend to S96mythbackend
2. edit /etc/init.d/mythbackend and change the following line:

from
# chkconfig: - 86 14

to
# chkconfig: - 96 04

This will delay the startup of the backend so that the channels will
change correctly.
I tried it and rebooted half a dozen times, worked every time.

Josh

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 17:38:38 -0600, David Blevins
<david.blevins at visi.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:09:12PM -0600, Andy Long wrote:
> > Well, for me at least, I was able to find a (sloppy, but pretty easy)
> > workaround for it.
> 
> Your workaround works for me.  Very strange.  I never had an issue
> like this in 0.14 or 0.15, but I ran those on RH9.
> 
> > I've posted to the list and never really got a
> > response.
> 
> Would be great if someone more knowledgeable would enlighten us as to
> what may be going on.
> 
> > FYI, I'm running FC3, Kernel 2.6.10-1.741_FC1 using the
> > mythtv 0.16 (whatever one was avialable via apt-get).  Maybe one of
> > the new CVS fixes this, but I'm still a n00b and not comfortable
> > messing with that yet.
> 
> My stats for the archives:
> FC2, Kernel 2.6.8-1.521 686,
> WinTV PVR 250, ivtv 0.1.10-48_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc2.at
> MythTV 0.16
> 
> >
> > First, exit the frontend.  Then try killing and then restarting the
> > backend (don't reboot the box or anything).  I do it as follows on
> > FC3:
> >
> > #  /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop
> > #  /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
> >
> > Now go back into the frontend and see if you can change channels (for
> > me, I couldn't get audio working without restarting the backend
> > either).  Can you change channels now?  If so, then you had the same
> > problem I did.
> 
> Sure did.  Thanks for sharing the workaround.
> 
> 
> > To make this a more permanent workaround, I did the following:
> >
> > 1) Used the following command to turn the autostart of mythbackend off
> > (Jarod's guide shows this way to make it start up automatically, so
> > I'm just undoing it if that's how you set up your box).
> >
> > # /sbin/chkconfig mythbackend off
> >
> > 2)  I then added the following lines to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file at
> > the bottom:
> >
> > /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
> > sleep 3
> > /etc/init.d/mythbackend stop
> > /etc/init.d/mythbackend start
> >
> >
> > The "sleep 3" statement is in there because it seems it was killing
> > off the backend too quickly before it fully started.  I played with
> > several ways of trying to start the backend, kill it, and then restart
> > it whenever the PC would boot, but this is the only way I found that
> > works reliably for me.  It's very sloppy, and I'd love to know how to
> > do it cleaner/easier, but this is what I got.
> >
> > Let me know if that helps or if you find a better way.
> 
> Good enough for me.  Though it would be nice to figure out why this is necessary.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -David
> 
> >
> > -Andy
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:41:19 -0600, David Blevins
> > <david.blevins at visi.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Andy Long wrote:
> > >
> > > > Just out of curiousity, what does the OSD say when you try change
> > > > channels?  Does it say something like "0 minutes"?
> > >
> > > I am also having a channel changing issue and "0" minutes is exactly what the OSD says.
> > >
> > > Is this an easy one to fix?
> > >
> > > -David
> > >
> > >
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