[mythtv-users] HDHR offline but not really

DryHeat122 dryheat122 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 15:30:07 UTC 2020


On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:55 AM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 21:39:13 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >Recordings are failing on my HDHomerun capture card.  Menus on
> mythfrontend
> >(myth 31/ubuntu 18.04) say the recorder is offline, but it's not.
> >HDHomerun setup app on the myth box can detect channels, and I can
> >tune/watch HDHR channels on other devices.  Grepping mythbackend.log for
> >hdhomerun or error shows nothing interesting.  Rebooting doesn't help.
> Was
> >working fine yesterday and haven't changed anything.  How to troubleshoot?
>
> Does it work if you restart mythbackend some time after bootup is
> complete?  If so, you have the boot time race condition where
> mythbackend is starting up before the network is ready and when it
> starts it is unable to see the HDHRs and marks them as bad.  If that
> is the problem, then see here for my fix:
>
> https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/mythtv/users/633552


Ah right, I had read about that before but forgot.  That was the problem.
Unfortunately I don't have the server version of Ubuntu.  I think I will
try the startup delay fix <https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?t=1467>
first and if that doesn't work go to more extreme measures.
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