[mythtv-users] scheduler confusion

[blind Pete]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 01:30:03 +1000
"Mike Holden" <mythtv at mikeholden.org> wrote:

> blind Pete wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 21:32:05 +0930
> > Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > On 7 Aug 2014, at 6:02 pm, "blind Pete" <0123peter at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> bP, what do you have for your base tuner priorities, ie what is
> >> the
> >> output of (MySQL):
> >>
> >> select cardinputid, cardid, schedorder, livetvorder from
> >> cardinput;
> >
> >
> > mysql> select cardinputid, cardid, schedorder, livetvorder from
> > mysql> cardinput;
> > +-------------+--------+------------+-------------+
> > | cardinputid | cardid | schedorder | livetvorder |
> > +-------------+--------+------------+-------------+
> > |           1 |      1 |          1 |           1 |
> > |           6 |      6 |          6 |           6 |
> > |           2 |      2 |          1 |           1 |
> > |           3 |      3 |          1 |           1 |
> > |           4 |      4 |          1 |           1 |
> > |           5 |      5 |          1 |           1 |
> > |           7 |      7 |          6 |           6 |
> > |           8 |      8 |          6 |           6 |
> > |           9 |      9 |          6 |           6 |
> > |          10 |     10 |          6 |           6 |
> > |          11 |     11 |         11 |          11 |
> > |          12 |     12 |         11 |          11 |
> > |          13 |     13 |         11 |          11 |
> > |          14 |     14 |         11 |          11 |
> > |          15 |     15 |         11 |          11 |
> > +-------------+--------+------------+-------------+
> > 15 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> >
> > mysql>
> >
> > Six stands out like a sore thumb.
> >
> > Presumably that would be due to seeing the second tuner on the dual
> > tuner card before the first was configured to have five virtual
> > tuners.  Can that be fixed without reinstalling?  Re-installing
> > might
> > just reproduce the problem.  B-(
> >
> > It has been suggested elsewhere that mythtv has no concept of
> > virtual
> > tuners belonging to a physical tuner.
> 
> 6 doesn't stand out at all! It's just that the SQL query specified
> has output the records in a random order due to a lack of an "ORDER
> BY" clause.
> 
> If you try the following query, you will see it looks as expected:
> 
> select cardinputid, cardid, schedorder, livetvorder from cardinput
> ORDER BY cardinput;

cardinputid;

> You would normally expect to see the schedorder and livetvorder to
> go in opposite directions, rather than being identical as in this
> case, but unless you are using Live TV, this shouldn't impact what
> is happening.

Bother.  

LiveTV very rarely gets used.  I don't remember configuring it.  

Could "something" be selecting virtual tuners in the same order 
as mysql, rather than by cardinputid?  

-- 
testing
bP