[mythtv-users] changechannel issue

matt lutz myth.matt.lutz at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 14:58:58 UTC 2007


On 6/15/07, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 15/06/07, matt lutz <myth.matt.lutz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure all that's okay, becuase I *can* manually tune to the
> > channel in liveTV.  If the freqid was different, I wouldn't be able to
> do
> > that, correct?
>
> Sorry - when you said change manually I figured you meant running the
> script manually whilst LiveTV was running without using the remote to
> change channels :)
>
> If channel changing does work properly in LiveTV for all channels then
> you clearly have 'well-formed' channels. I would still check the
> backend logfile with channel,record logging and perhaps monitor load
> levels on the machine in case you get a failed channel changes again.
> Do they occur at random times on random channels?
>
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> Nick
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The failures don't seem to follow any perceivable pattern.  I'll check load
levels during that time.  Maybe I'll update the changechannel script to
write to /var/log/messages when it runs, so I can see if this is a directv
receiver problem or a mythbackend problem.
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