[mythtv-users] Detecting / Recovering from HD channel broadcast changes?

Todd Ignasiak ignasiak at gmail.com
Wed Apr 4 16:04:50 UTC 2007


Has anyone else run into this?  It happens infrequently enough that I
usually just fix it and forget it..

Occasionally, my cable company changes the channel settings for my HD
(QAM256) stations.   Actually, I'm not sure if it's the cable company,
or the broadcast from the station .  But, some way or another, the
channel info (PIDs?) are changing, and MythTV cannot view/record them.
   After I notice a few missed recordings, I can go into mythtv-setup
and rescan the channel and it works again.  MythTV doesn't seem to be
as forgiving as some other devices to these changes.

Has anyone else run into this, or found a good way to detect and/or
recover from it?

Maybe a polling script that compares the current info to the MythTV
settings & alerts you to changes could at least find the issue before
it causes failures.

Or, is there already some way to get MythTV to alert me when a
recording fails?  As it is now, it just happily tries to record the
whole program, and the status says it is recording, but there is no
file output.     A more aggressive alerting/recovery mechanism would
be nice.


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