[mythtv-users] Lost "Upcoming Recordings"

[Aaron Klein]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Greg Hermsen <g.hermy15 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 3:11 AM, David Watkins <watkinshome at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 15/10/2008, Greg Hermsen <g.hermy15 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I was in the process of adding shows to my recording schedule through
>> > Mythweb.  I went to verify them in my Upcoming Recordings and all
>> > recording
>> > schedules were gone.  Everything else seems to be intact.  I still have
>> > the
>> > shows that I previously recorded.  I still have my channel lineup and
>> > the
>> > listings display in the lineup.  I still have my custom searches.  The
>> > only
>> > thing that was lost is all my scheduled recordings.  I can't pinpoint
>> > anything I did.  Does anybody have any ideas to fix this, or at least
>> > suggestions to prevent it in the future if you suspect I did something?
>>
>> I've seen it a couple of times.  Fortunately a restart of the backend
>> made everything appear again.
>>
>> Depending on how many and complicated your recording schedules are,
>> then a nightly backup of your database is a step towards a solution.
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> Thanks for the response.  I noticed this late last night and partly because
> I'm a noob and partly because I was over-tired, the sequence of events is a
> little sketchy.  I mentioned that everything other than the upcoming
> recordings looked like it was intact.  I'm pretty sure I saw my program
> listings (under watch live TV) after loosing "Upcoming Recordings."  The
> current state however is that I am also missing the program guide and my
> tuners show up as "Unavailable".
>
> I am using a Hauppauge HVR-1600 with beta drivers.  The beta download page
> said that the driver must be recompiled after each kernel update.  It looked
> like the kernel updated last night around the time I started noticing my
> problem.  I tried going through the recompile but was unsuccessful.  I'm
> going to try again tonight.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_HVR-1600
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
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Greg I can verify your issues.  I did a kernel update last night and
lost my 1600 and my secondary backend became unavailable.  The issue
was the mythtv-backend process was failing to run.  When I looked at
the log entry I noticed it complained about the 1600 tuner not
existing.  This reminded me I had to do Steps 1 and 2 of the Wiki page
that you have linked.  Upon running Steps 1 and 2 and restarting the
system things worked again as they should have.

For me I suffer from having dropped frames on my first analog capture
after a restart so I also scheduled a 'junk' recording to clear up
that little bug.

Below are the exact steps I took:

sudo apt-get install mercurial linux-headers-$KERNEL_VERSION build-essential

hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb

cd v4l-dvb

make

sudo make install

sudo make unload

sudo modprobe cx18

wget http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/cx18-firmware.tar.gz

tar -xzvf cx18-firmware.tar.gz

sudo cp cx18-firmware/*.fw /lib/firmware/$KERNEL_VERSION/

sudo shutdown -r now