[mythtv-users] HD-PVR stopped working

[John P Poet]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Fred Hamilton <fred at yonkitime.com> wrote:

> Running 0.27 + fixes on Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> cat /dev/video0 > test.ts works.  And the channel it records is the last
> one myth tried to record, indicating the 1394 channel changing is working
> fine.
>
> mythbackend.log just reports "(Tuning => Recorder Failed)" and then
> reschedules.
>
> Where should I look next?
>
> About 4 or 5 shows didn't record a few days ago.  I cycled power on my
> HDPVR and rebooted my MythTV box (FE and BE).  It worked OK for a day or
> tow, and then this morning I noticed 4 failures last night.  However today
> no amount of rebooting or powering down everything seems to help.
>
> But "cat /dev/video0 > test.ts" works - I thought that was supposed to be
> the hard part!  :-)
>

It sounds like myth *thinks* the tuning is failing.  Are you sure your
channel-change script is reliably returning true?

You probably should have mythbackend running with "-v record,channel" if
you don't already.


John
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