[mythtv-users] Fresh install of .30 on Ubuntu 18.04 lts hd homerun problems

[John Wolf]

Thanks for responding BP.  I still have not been able to get it to record 2
programs on different physical transmitters.  It will record 2 shows of the
same transmitter, but it doesn't seem to even try to use the other tuner.
In the status screen it shows:

Input 1: 1 available
Input 2: 1 available

If I schedule say shows that overlap on 7.1 & 7.2 it will record both, but
if I schedule say 7.1 & 22.1 which are on different transmitters it will
only record 1 of them.

I have tried various settings, but none have recorded off of 2 transmitters
at the same time.

My current settings have:
Capture cards: 1 Defined for the physical HDHomerun Connect

Recording Profiles: 1 defined HDHomerun Recorders

Video Sources: 1 defined HDHomerun
                                     Listing grabber EIT only
                                     Channel Freq Table: us-bcast
                                     Network ID: -1

Input connections: 1 defined HDHOMERUN
          Input name: MPEG2TS
          Video Source: HDHOMERUN
          Quick tune: Never
          Interactions:
                       Max Reordings:2 (1,2,9,10)
                       Schedule as group no
                       Input priority 0
                       Schedule order 1
                       Live TV order 1
                       Input 1 group: Generic
                       Input 2 group: Generic

On max recordings the only choices are the 1,2,9,10  The I could record up
to 4 programs with the old one, but I usually don't record much on the sub
channels anyway and it was few and far between that it would schedule more
that 2 programs anyway and they were practically always on different
transmitters so I don't care about that anyway.  But I do record 2 programs
at ones fairly frequently.

I don't know if you can tell me what I need to change.  I tried adding
another capture card, so it had one per tuner, but that did not seem to
work with or without the checkbox about using the same hardware.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

John

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:43 PM BP <lists at qucae.com> wrote:

> On 7/16/19 7:26 PM, John Wolf wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I have been running Myth for a number of years.  My setup for the past
> > couple years has been a Core i5 with 8 gb ram and a 2 Tb hard drive & a
> > 4 Tb hard drive recording off the air in the US using a HD Homerun
> > connect dual tuner device. I had been running Mythubuntu .27 on Ubuntu
> > 16.04. I figured since the boot drive died i would replace the drive and
> > upgrade to Mythtv .30 & Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I had no trouble installing
> > the software but I can't get it to use both tuners on the hdhomerun. The
> > hdhomerun portion of the setup has changed from before. I added the
> > hdhomerun and on the status screen it shows input 1: 4 available.  If I
> > schedule 2 shows at the same time the first one records fine, but the
> > second show displays orange on the screen in the schedule with a
> > message "Single record +0 conflicting" and the second show never
> > records.  Why would it show the 4 available and only be able to record 1
> > thing.  I know to get 4 shows recording 2 of them had to be on sub
> > channels of  the same channel and it can only tune to 2 actual stations,
> > but it will only record 1 show.  What is the proper way to setup a
> > HDHomerun under .30?
> >
> > Is there a step by step?  What I saw on the MythTV.org site looked like
> > the old way of setting it up.
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > John
> >
>
> HDHomeRun support was changed to support tuner sharing/locking.  Before,
> MythTV assumed nothing else would ever use the tuner.  You created
> tuners from each specific tuner on the device (such as tuner 0 on device
> X).  Now, you decide how many tuners of the total on the HDHomeRun you
> want MythTV to be able to use and create that many tuners all pointing
> to the same physical device without specifying the specific tuner.  For
> a 4 tuner HDHomeRun, you would create 1-4 tuners in setup all pointing
> to the same HDHomeRun device depending on how many you want to use.
> Since you set up just one, it will probe the four available for an
> unlocked tuner and use it.  It won't ever try to use two because you've
> only configured it to use one.
>
> There's some description in this ticket:
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/13339
>
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