[mythtv-users] Firewire issues; default LiveTV tuner

[Bob Sully]

>> If I can't get it to reliably come up in LiveTV on the Firewire
>> input, how can I get it to use one of the other tuners as the default?
>> I saw one thread in the archives from about 8 months ago, in which
>> the OP was basically told that there was no option for choosing a
>> default tuner for LiveTV.
>>
>> I'm sure I'm not the only one having this problem.

> I don't use firewire so I can't help you there and I don't know what
> you searched for to find that wrong piece of information, but here's
> just one of the MANY messages about this in the archives:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/254361

> In fact, it's so frequently asked that there's even an entry in the
> Frequently Asked Questions section of the Wiki.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Need_to_prioritise_cards.2Finputs_for_live_TV


OK, this basically tells me that if I have more than two tuners, I still
can't choose a default...basically I have two options - the lowest and the
highest-numbered one.  While this fixed my problem (switching to Tuner 1
by unchecking the box, rather than using the Firewire (tuner 5)), what if
I wanted to use the one in the middle as the default?  Yeah, I know, it's
splitting hairs in this case, but it might be an issue for someone with
more than two tuners, all of which are different.

Anyway, I'm still having problems getting the system to lock onto the
Firewire output.  Backend status tells me that it's live, and I have run
firewire_tester to show that it's live (and do once an hour as a cron
job), and it's tuned to a known-working, unencrypted channel.  Here's a
snippet from the backend log which tells me that it's timing out (which I
already knew).  Anyone else had ths issue, and have a fix for it?

2008-02-27 20:12:10.604 TVRec(5): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2008-02-27 20:12:10.609 TVRec(5): HW Tuner: 5->5
2008-02-27 20:12:11.625 ret_pid(0) child(13956) status(0x0)
2008-02-27 20:12:12.626 ret_pid(13956) child(13956) status(0x0)
2008-02-27 20:12:12.627 External Tuning program exited with no error
libiec61883 warning: Failed to allocate bandwidth.
2008-02-27 20:12:12.655 FireRec: Buffered packets 2000 (8000 KB)
2008-02-27 20:12:19.155 TVRec(5): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None
2008-02-27 20:12:27.654 FireRec: No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:2] (select)
2008-02-27 20:12:27.664 Finished recording Big Brother: 'Til Death Do You
Part: channel 1930
2008-02-27 20:12:27.671 scheduler: Finished recording: Big Brother: 'Til
Death Do You Part: channel 1930
2008-02-27 20:12:27.676 MythSocket(2aaaacb01060:-1): writeStringList:
Error, socket went unconnected.

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