[mythtv-users] LiveTV issues (root caused to cable signals)

[Monkey Pet]

Looks like I spoke too soon, the LiveTV issues are back, the last thing I
see in the backlog log is the following:

Aug 28 20:07:15 mythtv mythbackend[1652]: 2012-08-28 20:07:15.188769 E
 HDHRSH(1313E021-0): UpdateFilters called in wrong tune mode
Aug 28 20:07:15 mythtv mythbackend[1652]: 2012-08-28 20:07:15.613942 I
 TVRec(5): FinishedRecording(4767_2012-08-28T20:04:34) damaged
recq:<RecordingQuality overall_score="0" key="4767_2012-08-28T20:04:34"
countinuity_error_count="0" packet_count="703256">
Aug 28 20:07:15 mythtv mythbackend[1652]: <Gap start="2012-08-28T20:00:00"
end="2012-08-28T20:04:34" duration="274" />
Aug 28 20:07:15 mythtv mythbackend[1652]: <Gap start="2012-08-28T20:06:27"
end="2012-08-28T21:30:00" duration="5013" />
Aug 28 20:07:15 mythtv mythbackend[1652]: </RecordingQuality>


On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was debugging LiveTV issues yesterday and discovered that my cable
> signal was marginal.  When I removed a splitter and changed the coax cable,
> the signal was better and my LiveTV issues went again.  LiveTV was working
> well for a few weeks, then over the last weekend, I suddenly started having
> issues, nothing changed with mythtv setup which was running 0.25/fixes.  I
> wanted to post this since others with marginal cable signals might have
> issues with LiveTV with mythtv.  My setup uses HDHR3 Prime with a cablecard.
>
> I used the hdhomerun_config to determine my signal level.
>
> [me at mythtv libhdhomerun]$ ./hdhomerun_config 1313E021 get /tuner0/status
> ch=qam:759000000 lock=qam256 ss=62 snq=65 seq=100 bps=38809216 pps=1428
>
>
> After re-cabling:
> (notice the numbers jump)
>
> [me at mythtv libhdhomerun]$ ./hdhomerun_config 1313E021 get /tuner0/status
> ch=qam:759000000 lock=qam256 ss=76 snq=82 seq=100 bps=38809216 pps=994
>
>
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