<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm running 0.26/fixes.<br></div><div style><div><br></div><div>MythTV Version : v0.26.0-80-g8ca4caf</div><div>MythTV Branch : fixes/0.26</div><div>Network Protocol : 75</div><div>Library API : 0.26.20130112-1</div>
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<div><br></div><div style>My HDHR Prime has the official firmware (20120405). I'm wary of trying the beta firmware in fear of making things worse and not being able to revert back to official firmware.</div></div><div style>
<br></div><div style>I was originally having problems with pixelated recordings that would suddenly be missing several minutes of recording. Consequentely, I added an upstart job that did a ping to keep the tuner alive:</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><div>#Ping of Death, </div><div>#workaround for <a href="http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10414">http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10414</a></div><div>#and <a href="http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13227">http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13227</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>description<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"endlessly ping a HDHR prime"</div><div><br></div><div>start on net-device-up IFACE!=lo</div><div><br></div><div>script</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ID=$(hdhomerun_config discover | awk '{ print $6 }')</div>
<div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>ping -i 1 -n $ID > /dev/null</div><div>end script</div><div><br></div></div><div style><br></div><div style>Now i'm noticing that i'm encountering recordings every few recordings that show up as 0.00 GB. While it's going on the tuner shows it's in progress, but no file gets written. For example here's one from last night:</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><div>Jan 17 21:01:00 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1043 (HandleStateChange) TVRec(1): Changing from None to RecordingOnly</div><div>Jan 17 21:01:00 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3562 (TuningCheckForHWChange) TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:01:00 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: N Scheduler autoexpire.cpp:264 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 22.0 GB w/freq: 14 min</div><div>Jan 17 21:01:00 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I Scheduler scheduler.cpp:2648 (HandleRecordingStatusChange) Tuning recording: Elementary:"Flight Risk": channel 2611 on cardid 1, sourceid 2</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:01:01 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: E HDHRStreamHandler dtvsignalmonitor.cpp:321 (HandlePAT) DTVSM(13118BC4-0): Program #0 not found in PAT!#012Program Association Section#012 PSIP </div><div>
tableID(0x0) length(13) extension(0x0)#012 version(9) current(1) section(0) last_section(0)#012 tsid(0) programCount(1)#012 program number 611 has PID 0x0050</div><div>Jan 17 21:01:01 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: E HDHRStreamHandler dtvsignalmonitor.cpp:326 (HandlePAT) DTVSM(13118BC4-0): But there is only one program in the PAT, so we'll just use it</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:01:01 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I CoreContext scheduler.cpp:655 (UpdateRecStatus) Updating status for Elementary:"Flight Risk" on cardid 1 (Tuning => Recording)</div><div>Jan 17 21:01:01 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: E HDHRStreamHandler hdhrstreamhandler.cpp:211 (UpdateFilters) HDHRSH(13118BC4-0): UpdateFilters called in wrong tune mode</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:01:01 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:4056 (TuningNewRecorder) TVRec(1): rec->GetPathname(): '/var/lib/mythtv/1.5tb/recordings/2611_20130118030100.mpg'</div></div>
<div style><div>Jan 17 21:01:01 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: E TVRecEvent recorderbase.cpp:166 (SetStrOption) RecBase(1:13118BC4-0): SetStrOption(...recordingtype): Option not in profile.</div><div>Jan 17 21:02:53 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:07:10 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:264 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 22.0 GB w/freq: 14 min</div><div>Jan 17 21:07:56 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:10:10 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor</div><div>Jan 17 21:10:10 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 0)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:10:10 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor</div><div>Jan 17 21:10:10 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 1)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:11:02 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I Metadata_7081 jobqueue.cpp:2156 (DoMetadataLookupThread) JobQueue: Metadata Lookup Starting for Elementary:"Flight Risk" recorded from channel </div>
<div>2611 at 2013-01-18T03:01:00Z</div><div>Jan 17 21:11:06 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor</div><div>Jan 17 21:11:07 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 0)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:11:07 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor</div><div>Jan 17 21:11:07 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 1)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:12:07 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I Commflag_7082 jobqueue.cpp:2281 (DoFlagCommercialsThread) JobQueue: Commercial Detection Starting for Elementary:"Flight Risk" recorded from ch</div>
<div>annel 2611 at 2013-01-18T03:01:00Z</div><div>Jan 17 21:12:08 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Playback</div><div>Jan 17 21:12:08 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 0)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:12:08 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor</div><div>Jan 17 21:12:08 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 1)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:12:12 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor</div><div>Jan 17 21:12:12 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 0)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:12:12 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Monitor</div><div>Jan 17 21:12:12 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 1)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:12:13 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: E Commflag_7082 previewgenerator.cpp:255 (Run) Preview: Encountered problems running '/usr/bin/mythpreviewgen --size 0x0 --chanid 2611 --starttim</div>
<div>e 20130118030100 --verbose general --loglevel info --syslog local7 --quiet' (128)</div><div>Jan 17 21:13:02 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:16:25 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1395 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::ANN Playback</div><div>Jan 17 21:16:25 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1397 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a client (events: 0)</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:16:25 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1510 (HandleAnnounce) MainServer::HandleAnnounce FileTransfer</div><div>Jan 17 21:16:25 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:1512 (HandleAnnounce) adding: supermario as a remote file transfer</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:16:26 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: W ProcessRequest mainserver.cpp:5841 (connectionClosed) MainServer: Unknown socket closing MythSocket(0x9cbd1f0)</div><div>Jan 17 21:16:26 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: E ProcessRequest mythsocket.cpp:344 (writeStringList) MythSocket(9cbd1f0:-1): writeStringList: Error, socket went unconnected.#012#011#011#011We </div>
<div>wrote 0 of 10 bytes with 1 errors#012#011#011#011starts with: 2 OK</div><div>Jan 17 21:18:09 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:21:10 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:264 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 22.0 GB w/freq: 14 min</div><div>Jan 17 21:23:15 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:28:17 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div><div>Jan 17 21:33:17 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:35:10 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:264 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 22.0 GB w/freq: 14 min</div><div>Jan 17 21:38:20 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:43:25 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div><div>Jan 17 21:48:30 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:49:10 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:264 (CalcParams) AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 22.0 GB w/freq: 14 min</div><div>Jan 17 21:53:31 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div>
<div>Jan 17 21:58:33 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I HouseKeeping housekeeper.cpp:221 (RunHouseKeeping) Running housekeeping thread</div><div>Jan 17 21:59:29 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1557 (HandlePendingRecordings) TVRec(1): ASK_RECORDING 1 29 0 0</div>
<div>Jan 17 22:00:00 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1043 (HandleStateChange) TVRec(1): Changing from RecordingOnly to None</div><div>Jan 17 22:00:00 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: E HDHRStreamHandler hdhrstreamhandler.cpp:211 (UpdateFilters) HDHRSH(13118BC4-0): UpdateFilters called in wrong tune mode</div>
<div>Jan 17 22:00:00 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:830 (FinishedRecording) TVRec(1): FinishedRecording(2611_2013-01-18T03:01:00Z) damaged recq:<RecordingQuality overall_score="0" key="2611_2013-01-18T03:01:00Z">#012 <Gap start="2013-01-18T03:01:01Z" end="2013-01-18T04:00:00Z" duration="3538" />#012</RecordingQuality></div>
<div>Jan 17 22:00:00 supermario mythlogserver: mythbackend[1956]: I CoreContext scheduler.cpp:655 (UpdateRecStatus) Updating status for Elementary:"Flight Risk" on cardid 1 (Recording => Recorded)</div><div><br>
</div><div style>I'm unsure what to do next to further debug at this point. Anyone have any ideas?</div><div><br></div></div></div>