[mythtv-users] No live tv and not recording

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:57:53 +0100, you wrote:

>Le mardi 13 mars 2018, 14:36:44 CET Stephen Worthington a écrit :
>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:11:07 +0100, you wrote:

>> It looks like your tuners are misconfigured - starting LiveTV is
>> unable to find a usable tuner, and fails.  Recording also is unable to
>> find a usable tuner, and fails, but then sets itself to automatically
>> try to record the next repeat or next episode of the same program.
>> 
>> However, you do appear to have some EPG data.  So either the XMLTV
>> setup was at some time (or still is) working properly, or the tuners
>> are set up well enough for EPG collection to work, even if LiveTV and
>> recording does not.
>> 
>> When running mythfrontend, if you go to Information Centre > System
>> Status, it should show a set of screens that monitors the operation of
>> MythTV.  The first screen is "Listings Status" which tells you about
>> your EPG and how it is being updated. 
>
>
>
>Hello Stephen,
>
>> Use the right arrow to go right
>> to the next screen, "Schedule Status" and you will see data about
>> scheduled recordings, and then right arrow again to get to "Tuner
>> Status".  On that screen, what is the status of your tuners?  If they
>> are not doing anything, each multirec tuner should be listed as "Tuner
>> x is not recording". 
>
>Here I see 
>"Tuner 1 is not recording, 
>Tuner 2 is not recording".
>
>Does that mean that they are actually not recording or that they can't record 
>at all ?
>
>> But if there are errors talking to the tuners,
>> they should be coloured yellow and say "Tuner x has an error".  
>
>They are not coloured yellow and I don't have this message. So they should be 
>able to record ?

Mythbackend certainly thinks the tuners are OK - it is able to talk to
them and issue them commands and see responses.  But that does not
mean all the settings are correct for them to be able to record.

>> If a
>> tuner is in use for EIT EPG data gathering, I believe it should tell
>> you about that also, but as I do not use EIT, I can now say what the
>> message is exactly.  When on the Tuner Status screen, you can use the
>> down arrow to move down onto the tuners listed, and you will then see
>> in the Details section of the screen the address of the tuner and
>> possibly more about its status.  ...
>
>I can go down th the tuners listed. The only message in the details section 
>is:
>Tuner 1 [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 ] is not recording.
>Tuner 2 [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 ] is not recording.
>
>My antenna has 2 LNBs, so I choose LNB in capture card configuration.
>
>"In LNB configuration - LNB Preset", I choose "Universal (Europe)". 
>
>Other options are
>
>- Single (Europe)
>- Circular (N. America)
>- Linear (N. America)
>- C Band
>- Dishpro Bandstacked
>- Custom
>
>Should I try one of the other options above ?

It depends on what your LNB is.  Simple dishes in Europe would
normally have a dual oscillator LNB, for which "Universal (Europe)" is
correct.

You also have to have set up the LNB settings - the two local
oscillator frequencies and the frequency at which the switch is made
between the two local oscillators.  If you have VLC working, you must
have put those same settings into it.

>Thanks for help
>
>Klaus

When running mythbackend, you might like to add another option to get
more logging about the tuners:

mythbackend --loglevel debug -v record