[mythtv-users] Program I thought should be recorded wasn't... [Understood...]
Mark Knecht
markknecht at gmail.com
Tue May 13 15:04:55 UTC 2008
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/13 Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>:
>
>
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Clay <nt4usb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > >
> >> > > > > Is there a way to see both what recordings
> >> > > users ask to be recorded
> >> > > > > but also see which ones are taken off the list?
> >> <SNIP>
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Arrow down to it and type 'u' should give program
> >> > details. Type 'o' to see upcoming episodes.
> >> > fwiw, series I want to record I set up to record at
> >> > any time on any channel. Surprising how many repeat on
> >> > some obscure channel... Myth does a pretty good job of
> >> > not recording the same show twice and if it does, the
> >> > delete key is always close at hand.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes, what you are explaining I basically understand. I don't think
> >> it's what I'm asking about however.
> >>
> >> In my case I had programmed a show Saturday afternoon to be recorded
> >> on Sunday morning. It was on the list to be recorded and is still
> >> (unfortunately) on the list to be recorded. There was (presumably) a
> >> tuner available since the system has two tuners and only one was in
> >> use at 8AM. The listing said the program was on at 8AM, and it was.
> >> The tuner was available. So why didn't the program record?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mark
> >>
> >
> > OK, here's what was going on. Don't ask me....
> >
> > In the area I live in Comcast is going through a rebuild of the cable
> > system and switching to fiber. This means they move around channels
> > and I have to go to Schedules Direct and change line-ups once in
> > awhile. One of those events happened over the weekened. This is not
> > the first time this has happened and it it didn't even strike me as
> > important. I add a new line up, delete my cards, and then create new
> > cards attached to the new line-up. Done it before.
> >
> > This week it seems that Myth decided to do something new to us.
> > Starting Saturday it began making new recordings every hour on the new
> > SciFi channel. (73) Myth took a tuner and dedicated it to recording
> > channel 73 every hour. I assume it was myth since the files in the
> > video directory were all owned by myth. It wasn't one long recording -
> > it was numerous 1 hour recordings.
> >
> > Thing is that NONE of these recordings showed up in mythfrontend. My
> > wife noticed late last night that with only 12 programs recorded we
> > were out of disk space. I stopped Myth this morning, removed all these
> > recordings, and then rebooted. So far Myth hasn't started recording
> > channel 73 again but maybe it will at the top of the hour. If not it
> > seems that at least I understand what was causing the system to only
> > record on program on our list - the other tuner was busy recording
> > everything you ever wanted to watch on SciFi!
> >
> > - Mark
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>
> Sounds like LiveTV was stuck recording on that channel.
>
>
> "Thing is that NONE of these recordings showed up in mythfrontend."
> What if you change the filter/view to show the LiveTV recording group,
> do you see them then?
>
> Ash
Thanks Ash. It looks like that's exactly what happened. When I changed
the filter I see all the programs so possibly I hit 'R' when I was
checking out the new line-up and didn't notice it. My bad!
Again, thanks very much!
- Mark
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