[mythtv-users] auto-restarting mythbackend

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Fri Oct 16 20:23:47 UTC 2015


On Friday, October 16, 2015 11:26:12 AM glen wrote:
> 
> geary mail - arch linux
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Jerome Yuzyk <jerome at supernet.ab.ca> 
> wrote:
> > On Friday, October 16, 2015 05:46:38 PM Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> >> 
> >>  I am curious as to how often you find it fails?  I cannot remember
>
> > Trying out firewire recording from my DCX-3200, I've had a few, like 
>
> i have similar issues with firewire on that box. my device and model 
> id's are not in firewire.cpp, i won't know if adding them will help 
> until they added by dev or i compile myself.
> 
> but, i only have problem when computer resumes from sleep. then if am 
> home i would have to restart backend to get a successful firewire 
> recording even though plugreport looks right. i also have priming 
> script in the resume scripts. sometimes i have to run firewiretester 
> several times (while tuned to same channel) before packets are sent.

I leave my box on all the time, no sleeping or anything. 
 
> you may benefit from 'priming' the firewire. i can send you the script 
> that i found works best with that box. also what mode are you recording 
> in ? broadcast or p2p. i find p2p is much more reliable.

I used p2p because it was the default and worked, mostly, then tried broadcast and it didn't. Not sure how quickly I can test it since I have a whack of recordings coming up.

Channel-changing with 6200ch has been rock-solid though.

I would appreciate your script so I can try it out. That was one of the questions in my mail that I haven't sent yet. 

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