[mythtv-users] What lessons can I learn from this?

[Mike Perkins]

On 17/06/13 12:39, Brendan Pike wrote:
> I run two HDHomerun tuners, each are dual channel giving me 4 in total. A week
> ago the power supply to one of the devices died, I didn't notice this for a week
> (I always watch older shows first) until I started noticing empty recordings.
>
> My main questions are, why didn't mythtv keep recording at least some shows on
> the remaining device?  I even switched power to the failed one until I could
> organise a new power supply but it didn't help.
> And does mythtv have any notification / alert options that could of been set to
> notify me about the failed recordings?
>
Well, the first lesson, the one I can help you with, is to always check your 
system is functional each day. I do mine with mythweb and it is literally the 
first task each morning after firing up the workstation (the mythbackend stays 
on 24/7). If I get no response then the backend is down: priority fix. Then I 
check recent recordings to make sure what I asked for is what I received. Next I 
check upcoming recordings, to make sure the scheduler hasn't overlooked 
anything, and finally I go to the listings to see if there is anything new we 
might be interested in.

As for HDHR antics, I can't help you there. Myth would keep recording if it 
thought the tuner still existed, so I guess there's some kind of strange failure 
mode you have stumbled across.

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Mike Perkins