[mythtv-users] Not sure why I'm getting a conflict with show on multiplex

[Ian Evans]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 13:08:04 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > CTV - CTV News 600-700pm
> >> > WGRZ-DT2 Green Acres 600-631pm
> >> > WGRZ-DT NBC Nightly News 630-700pm
> >> > WGRZ-DT2 Green Acres 630-701pm <---shows as a conflict and won't
> record
> >> >
> >> > If I say "don't record" to the NBC News the conflict goes. But again,
> >> the NBC news and Green Acres are on a multiplex.
> >>
> >> How many tuners have you got - real and multirec ? You need 4 tuners in
> >> total there - because of the overlap from 6:30 to 6:31. Assuming that
> first
> >> column is the channel, you need two tuners on one channel - which can
> >> normally be two multirec tuners on one physical tuner.
> >>
> >
> >It's an HDHomerun 2 tuner model so it shows two real and two virtual
> >tuners, 4 in total. (I think that's the proper way to say it.)
> >
> >To clarify, CTV is 9.1 and WGRZ and WGRZ-DT2 are 2.1 and 2.2 so
> channelwise
> >my issue is:
> >
> >9.1 - CTV News 600-700pm
> >2.2 Green Acres 600-631pm
> >2.1 NBC Nightly News 630-700pm
> >2.2 Green Acres 630-701pm
>
> I have not looked up the HDHomerun, so I am assuming here that it is
> an ATSC off-the-air type tuner.
>
> I think you just need to increase the number of multirec tuners you
> have setup for each physical tuner.  The maximum is now 5 multirec
> tuners.  Your problem is that at 6:30-6:31, you need three tuners on
> the WGRZ multiplex at the same time.  The other physical tuner is
> tuned to a different multiplex for CTV and can not be used for WGRZ at
> that time, and the physical tuner assigned to WGRZ only has two
> multirec tuners.
>
> So just run mythtv-setup and add more multirec tuners to each physical
> tuner.  Unless you only have one hard drive to record to, setting it
> up to the maximum of 5 will not cause problems.  If you have too few
> hard drives for recordings and you get 10 multirec tuners recording at
> once, you will get bad recordings from the drives not being able to
> move their heads fast enough between the files being written for each
> recording.  That results in missing data in the middle of all the
> recordings.
>


Thanks for the tuner suggestion! Just increased it to 3 and I'm test
recording 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 29.1 and 29.2 as I type.
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