[mythtv-users] Suddenly only recording in SD, not HD

John Pilkington johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 28 22:03:20 UTC 2023


On 28/04/2023 21:40, Andy Smith wrote:
> 
> On 28/04/2023 17:27, Karl Buckland wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a MythTV setup that has been working very well for a few years.
>> Highlights:
>> - Proxmox, container with Ubuntu 20.04.
>> - Hauppauge dualHD USB stick (passed through), DVB/DVB-T2
>>
>> Suddenly in the last few days it has stopped being able to tune into
>> HD channels, but it can still tune to SD. When trying to tune to any
>> HD channel, I get a timeout error:
>> TuningSignalCheck: taking more than 5000 ms to get a lock. marking
>> this recording as 'Failing'.
>>
>> The timeout was 3000ms, and I tried increasing it to 5000 but it has 
>> not helped.
>>
>> When tuning in MythTV Frontend, it shows:
>> Signal 73%
>> S/N 4.7dB
>> (TLMs) Partial Lock
>>
>> Clearly, my hardware is still working. I appear to have decent signal
>> quality. I have completely restarted all hardware to eliminate any odd
>> issues there.
>>
>> I am not sure on where my line of enquiry should be to investigate
>> further? Does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Karl
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> 
> Are you by any chance located in UK?  I am in the south east using the 
> Bluebell Hill transmitter.  My setup uses a Hauppauge WinTV-quadHD and 
> since Thursday have been experiencing the same as you, all previously 
> stable HD channels fail to tune.  I have rebooted, increased the timeout 
> and even done a channel rescan for that transport (PSB3/BBSB/C45) which 
> found all the same channels but still the channels on that transport 
> fail to tune.  There have been no changes to the platform (Ubuntu 18.04 
> | mythtv 29.1) and since all the channels on the other transports are 
> working fine I wasnt sure where to go next.
> 
I have rescanned with nothing similar.  But

https://www.freeview.co.uk/help/service-updates/channel-changes-26-April-2023

John P


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