[mythtv-users] Deep dark magic

[James Linder]

Hi
I have a schedule rule to record the news daily:

Schedule Options
Record Any Time Any Channel

Filters
This Channel

Duplicate Check
None
(Todays news looks like yesterday’s new: Subtitle etc)

If the station transmits on multiple muxes (and it usually does, but not *allways*) I get two recordings.
Same thing happens if I’ve recorded an episode from some series.
As part of my trying to solve the issue I have set 1 tuner per card and I can see 2 cards being used to do the recording.

What could I do to enforce a single recording?
What can I do to see debug info on how the scheduler has chosen it’s actions?

I’m getting zero byte recordings. If I look at the channel on LiveTV it ranges from good to bad (where bad is pixellated and squawky). If I scan there are multiple repeats of the channels. I suspect I may have choosen a *bad set* and I should rescan and try again. The logs are not very enlightning (from memory something like) “Recording failed”. Any thoughts or opinions welcome.

James