[mythtv-users] World Series network has morphed into NBC? only on my machine I'm sure

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 02:52:37 UTC 2013


On 10/24/13 10:43 PM, Bakula News wrote:
> reasonable guess.
> and then someone asked how long i shut it off when i rebooted it.
> oops.
> further tests seem to imply that of the three tuner cards
> 1 or 2 of them are not tuning, they are just recording the channel
> they recorded last. (I'm not sure which ones just yet). or at least,
> they are not tuning *reliably.*
> and
> tuner 2 now is not recording *audio.*
> This should be fun as I'm fairly sure, tuner 2 is one of two tuners on
> a two tuner card.
> Joy.
>
On occasion, hardware will keep its last malfunction past a simple
reboot or short term poweroff.
Hence, the usual time listed as power disconnected that help desks annoy
us with.
I've dealt with it myself, first hand. Nearly as annoying as dealing
with a helpdesk. Barely.
>
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com <mailto:mtdean at thirdcontact.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 10/24/2013 08:25 PM, Bakula News wrote:
>
>         Had myth since 04 but brother maintains it. I'm not super
>         fluent in Linux. New upgrade - version and a lot of my
>         hardware in September. All kinks being worked out since. Some
>         still around but not this - this is new.
>
>         Wednesday at 7:30 myth was set to record World Series on Fox
>         13. Came home around 8, all green and file size growing.
>         Checked in around 9:30 to find
>
>         myth was recording NBC channel 8.
>
>         live TV and Record got me a recording of Fox 13, till some
>         show ended.
>
>         Reboot later in the evening did not fix myth's confusion.  13
>         is 8. 8 is also 8.
>         Though the list of recorded shows doesn't match what recorded,
>         in either direction, around 10pm.
>
>         Tried again this evening for 5 minutes at 7:30 as my three
>         tuners have a trainwreck schedule from 9 to 11 that I don't
>         want to mess up. I set to record World Series, minus 175 minutes.
>
>         13 is still 8.
>         did not test to see if 8 is also 8. No, wait, 7:30 on NBC8 -
>         ET. 8 is, in fact, still 8.
>
>         Okay perhaps I don't watch Fox? And 13 has been 8 for a while?
>         10/10 Glee Tribute - Fox 13, yup, it's Fox
>         10/22 Mindy Project - also Fox.
>
>         I'm concerned myth is being possessed by the St Louis Cardinals.
>         Ideas?
>
>
>     Sounds like your provider (cable/satellite company) has shuffled
>     around channels?  If so, and if all they only switched them around
>     (rather than delete some and add some in different locations), you
>     can just edit the channel name, call sign, and/or number and
>     (critically) the XMLTV ID in mythtv-setup, then run a
>     mythfilldatabase --dd-grab-all to fix it.
>
>     Mike
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