<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Ronald Frazier <<a href="mailto:ron@ronfrazier.net">ron@ronfrazier.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Late last week I opened up mythweb to look at the list of upcoming<br>
recordings and noticed something odd. There were 2 shows listed (1<br>
from the day before and one from 5 days before) that were showing as<br>
currently recording. I had seen this once before a while back, but<br>
didn't know what to make of it. This time I started poking around, and<br>
noticed that on the backend status page, it said tuner 1 was was<br>
watching LiveTV. That's nice, except that one of the frontends was in<br>
the main menu, and the other was powered off. I looked at the backend<br>
logs and it had been recording live tv for several days. Starting<br>
LiveTV on the frontend just made it grab another tuner...the mystery<br>
LiveTV instance kept running. I restarted the backend and the problem<br>
went away.<br>
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Yesterday, my wife noticed that a program from last week didn't<br>
record. I looked at the recording history and it says the program was<br>
aborted. The thing is, neither of us had aborted any recordings. The<br>
show occurred during the period of time that mysterious frontend was<br>
watching live tv. I'm not sure if it's coincidence or related.<br>
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I have a few questions:<br>
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1) Has anyone else experienced this?<br>
2) Any idea how this could happen, that the backend thinks there is<br>
still a frontend running?<br>
3) When the backend goes to record a program, but the tuner is busy,<br>
it sends a request to the frontend to take over the tuner. What<br>
happens if the frontend never responds (I don't mean the user not<br>
responding...I know that is handled, but what if the mythfrontend<br>
process itself never responded)? What action will the backend take?<br>
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Ron<br></font></blockquote><div><br>Do you have any other frontends or is this your only Myth machine? I've had trouble getting XBMC to view my shows via the native myth:// setup - XBMC will crash out after trying to view live TV but my BE thinks the XBMC boxes are still connected and watching live tv. I have to restart the backend to clear it out. Not sure if there's a more elegant way to fix it.<br>
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