[mythtv-users] manual scheduling -> "no upcoming recordings"

[R. Geoffrey Newbury]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:44:07 -0500 (EST), f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:

>Well, this is new & different.
>
>So after my little debacle with Capture Cards, and discovering
>(for example) that there's no way to DELETE a single card from
>the list without nuking ALL of them and starting over (geez,
>what happens if somebody moves a card to a different machine?
>guess they just deserve to lose), I ran mythtv-setup, told it
>to delete my capture cards, and set up the 4 in the machine on
>unique /dev/videoN settings.  Then, after powering off the
>machine for a while and back on:
>
>(a) It still complains on boot about /dev/video4 not existing.
>    (There used to be a 5th card.  Not at the moment.)  Who's
>    caching this info?  I could post the logs if anyone wants.
>(b) I went into Schedule Recordings -> Manual Schedule and wasted
>    my time setting up 4 simultaneous recordings 5 minutes into the
>    future, only to discover in "Upcoming Recordings" that it's
>    claiming "You haven't yet scheduled any recordings."  WTF???
>(c) I can repeat (b) at will.  Manual Schedule isn't actually doing
>    anything any more.
>
>So something just broke in this KnoppMyth R5A22.  I can't prove it was
>related to flushing my capture cards and starting over, but I sure
>have my suspicions.
>
>Has anyone seen this sort of behavior before?

Yes. We are not alone... I'm sure. It did this to me a couple of times,
just about midnight last night. That was in Manual Recording too. And ...
Upcoming was empty.
By messing around in the EPG I thought that I had actually scheduled a
recording but although it was reported by the backend as being done, no
recording actually existed.. I -think- that that was the /dev/videox entry
problem...although it could have been trying to record using a phantom
card... since at one point last night the system thought it had 5
tuners...(instead of a PVR500 and pcHDTV only).

A speaking of usability factors, including the 'name the card' patch
discussed here, why cannot we explicitly set the tuner we want to use, or
at least see which tuner will be used...
I'm still not sure which order is actually used... 0 to 3,4,5 or 5 to
2,1,0... and which *is* zero?

Geoff 





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