[mythtv-users] No longer tuning channels with Ceton card
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sun May 19 20:46:20 UTC 2013
On 05/18/2013 10:38 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> Mike had sent the following response to me personally, but I thought
> I'd share it on the list in case anyone else runs into this. His
> problem was related to mythtv starting too quickly, before the ceton
> driver had initialized the card. The first tuner failed to initialize,
> but the other tuners worked fine. That's why playback worked in livetv
> but not recordings (because the default tuner order was different, so
> live tv was defaulting to a configured tuner, while recordings were
> using a failed tuner)
>
> Michael A Weber wrote:
>> You may disregard my previous message. In playing around with things,
>> and restarting mythbackend (but not the machine), I got access to that
>> first tuner. So, I added 5 seconds of sleep to the mythbackend startup
>> script and all is well.
>
Ah, that makes sense. If a tuner is unavailable on startup, MythTV will
not recognize it and wouldn't be able to use it.
Mike
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