[mythtv-users] Tuner not changing channel

Andy Long andymyth at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 00:41:51 EST 2005


Excellent.  I will give that a shot.  

Thanks for the input.

-Andy


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:21:58 -0600, Josh Burks <dotnofoolin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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