<div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/31 Paul Gillingham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paulgillingham@gmail.com">paulgillingham@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<div class="im">2009/3/31 Mike Perkins <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>>:<br></div>
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<div class="h5">> Paul Gillingham wrote:<br>>><br>>> Thanks,<br>>><br>>> That makes sense. But what's to stop all this careful configuration<br>>> being lost again overnight when the system re-scans? (if indeed that<br>
>> is what it is doing). I may be wrong about myth updating the channel<br>>> data overnight, but that's the only thing I can think of which<br>>> explains why my perfect reception is being lost, re setup and then<br>
>> lost again.<br>>><br>>> Anyway, I have just tried deleting all channels and the doing an<br>>> existing transport scan (rather than a full scan). This just scanned 6<br>>> transports (which is correct as I think there are 6 multiplexes in the<br>
>> UK?), I believe these are good transports for me as I've already done<br>>> my unplug the amp/full scan trick today. Anyway the scan returned all<br>>> the channels including ITV. etc. so that's good.<br>
>><br>>> I suppose what I have to do now is hope that Myth doesn't alter this<br>>> overnight. (i.e. if it does do any channel editing it will remember<br>>> that I only did a restricted scan and won't try looking for signals<br>
>> from different transports)<br>>><br>> Yup, I think you've got it. I've never had overnight problems of that sort.<br>> Myth should only do a scan when you ask it to. If you think myth is<br>> rescanning, that implies to me that your database is getting reversed<br>
> somehow. You don't happen to have a rogue overnight backup script which is<br>> restoring instead, do you?<br>><br>> Another possibility is that the scan updates aren't sticking, but as far as<br>> I know, the back end reads tuner info only at startup. This would imply that<br>
> your back end is restarting every night, as well as some kind of database<br>> problem.<br>><br>> --<br>><br>> Mike Perkins<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> mythtv-users mailing list<br>
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><br><br></div></div>Well my backend is restarting every night. (The whole machine is<br>actually.) I will see what happens tonight and get back to the list<br>tomorrow.<br></blockquote></div>
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<div>Well so far my tuners have remained correctly tuned (This is two nights since I did an 'existing transport only' scan rather than a full scan). So with luck the problem is solved. I will report back if this changes...</div>
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<div>Thanks for the help.<br></div>