[mythtv-users] Can't get LiveTV to start with DVB

[Graeme Hilton]

Matthew Geier wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I've been sitting on my HD5000 cards for a while and decided to throw
>> them in a new slave backend.  So... I put them in, and everything went
>> very smoothly.  I can record HDTV (there are some glitches, but I'm
>> sure that's the drivers) and watch what I record, however, I can not
>> start LiveTV.  The slavebackend shows:
>>
>> 2006-03-12 18:08:34.744 TVRec(6): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
>> 2006-03-12 18:08:34.747 TVRec(6) Error: Start channel invalid, setting
>> to '2_1' on input DVBInput instead.
> 
>  I managed to get into that state once - and I eventually edited the
> mysql table.
> 
>  Live TV returns to the last channel you had watched. If that channel is
> no more and you can't get lock anymore, LiveTV errors and returns to the
> menu. I couldn't figure out how to get control back so I could change to
> a 'real' channel in Myth.
>  So I went into the DB tinkered..

Go into Schedule Recordings and select a working channel to record from.
 Do this for as many tuners as you need to "reset".  This should force
them to retune to the correct channel.

After a few seconds, you can go into Watch Recordings and delete them.
Then you can watch LiveTV as the cards will start on the channels they
last recorded from.

This might not be quite true if you have EIT scanning enabled for
filling the program database.

-- 
Graeme Hilton