[mythtv-users] Lost "Upcoming Recordings"

[Greg Hermsen]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Aaron Klein <klein.aaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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Thank you Aaron!!  I'll give it a shot tonight.
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