[mythtv-users] Live TV interfering with scheduled recordings

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 14:41:05 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Scott harris <scott.harris0509 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Even though she isn't usually watching it my wife *constantly* has live
>>>>> TV on,
>>>>> and nearly always on a cable channel that I only have one tuner for
>>>>> (HD-PVR /w
>>>>> one cable box).  It used to be that if an upcoming recording needed to
>>>>> use
>>>>> that tuner it would popup a prompt asking the person using the tuner
>>>>> for
>>>>> live
>>>>> TV if they wanted to watch the show as it records/not record/ or exit
>>>>> live
>>>>> TV.  Recently it seems the MythTV has broken and no longer prompts the
>>>>> user
>>>>> and just continues playing the current live TV channel.  In mythweb it
>>>>> will
>>>>> show the show it was supposed to record as "currently recording", which
>>>>> you
>>>>> can't delete and only goes away after you restart the backend.  The
>>>>> tuner
>>>>> status is shown correctly.  Recordings that don't either don't conflict
>>>>> with
>>>>> live TV or don't happen when live TV is on all work fine. I'm running
>>>>> mythtv-0.25.2-2.fc16.x86_64.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone else have this issue or have an idea how to fix it (besides
>>>>> re-training my wife as that doesn't work)?  I'm missing all kinds of
>>>>> recordings.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, the prompt is broken.  However, make sure your configuration is
>>>> such
>>>> that
>>>> the Live TV and Schedule order for your capture cards is
>>>> different--ideally
>>>> reversed--to ensure that the first card chosen for Live TV is the last
>>>> chosen
>>>> for recordings and minimize the disruption caused by it.
>>>>
>>> He says he only has the one tuner...
>>>
>
>> and even if he didn't it wouldn't matter, if the tuner he is watching
>> live tv on HAS to be the one recording, it will still be put in the
>> LiveTV group and not the group the recording schedule says it should
>> be in, AND if he were to exit LiveTV while it's recording, the
>> recording would stop.
>
>
>> I've just upgraded one of my systems to 0.26 so will be able to report
>> back if this has truly been fixed shortly.
>
>
> I can tell you that as of today's Mythbuntu 0.26 builds, it is not fixed.
> Though, exiting Live TV will not delete the recording (it actually records 2
> copies of the show, using two tuners).  It still changes the Recording Group
> of the scheduled program to "Live TV"

Interesting this issue has persisted as long as it has with as many
people complaining about it as there are.

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Steve
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