[mythtv-users] Recordings problems after FCC bandwidth grab

[Christopher Sean Hilton]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 12:18:42AM -0400, John Wolf wrote:
>    Hello,
>    I have a myth system that started as a mythbuntu system with .25 & Ubuntu 12.04
>    running an us ota hdhr. It is currently on Myth .27.  When a couple of the
>    stations had to give up their spectrum they combined their transmissions with
>    their sister stations in the same area.
>    Ever since, recording shows on these channels most of the time the recording
>    stops before the end of the show and later recrecordings on other channels fail.
>    I have deleted all the tuner, channel and transport data and rescanned the
>    channels.  At this point channel 26 is being transmitted by channel 2, and
>    channel 45 is transmitted by channel 22.  All the schedule data is being received
>    for all the channels and it starts recording the shows but has problems after the
>    shows start.  If it is just recording shows from the channels that did not change
>    it works fine.
>    I wondered if anyone has seen this behavior after the changing of the channels.
>    Thanks for any suggestions.
>    John

The FCC project is called "Repack". I also started with mythbuntu and
upgraded as far as I could. I get OTA channels from a set of HDHomeRun
devices that are connected to antenna feeds in my attic. This is
because it's easier to get TCP/IP into my basement where the mythtv is
than it would be get get raw coax from the attic antenna feeds.

For "Repack" I had to delete my HDHomeRun tuners, then rescan
them. The last step was to re-attach each channel to the it's schedule
data. This worked fine for me but we are only in the first phase of
repack here. Before I did this I got blank recordings because the
mythtv would improperly program the HDHomeRun's tuner.

-- 
Chris

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