<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 December 2017 at 09:56, Mike Bibbings <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.bibbings@gmail.com" target="_blank">mike.bibbings@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_-4982172421712650786moz-cite-prefix">On 24/12/17 19:22, UB40D wrote:<br>
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progress) and it failed, meaning it briefly said "please
wait" and then nothing happened. Several times. Really
voodoo here. Once the recording finishes I'll restart
frontend and backend from terminal windows to look at the
logs again and try to nail it down.</div>
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<div>Anyway MAJOR PROGRESS since yesterday. Very many thanks
to all in this thread.<br>
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Sometimes LiveTV fails to tune to a channel when the starting
channel has got out of step (if mythtv has trouble tuning it
defaults to channel 3, which unless you have changed channel numbers
using mythweb, or the channel editor will not exist in Freesat
numbering from a channel scan).<br>
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If you go into Program Guide from the main menu, use the up/down
arrow keys to move to a channel and press menu key (default m) you
then get a pop up with some entries amongst which is something like
"watch this channel" just select this and it should tune to the
channel, this will update the starting channel.<span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>It looks like I'm not quite at the end of my troubles.</div><div>I came back to the box only to find "X Could not connect to master backend". Damn. The recording was still in progress, though, almost over, and all looked like it had worked so far.</div><div>I went into Program Guide from the main menu as per your instructions (still with "could not connect to master backend") and it took several minutes of "loading", during which ESC was unresponsive. I started writing this reply during that time. A program guide grid has since appeared. I was able to arrow-down to BBC One HD. I pressed m and nothing happened. I' ve still got "X Could not connect to master backend" that comes and goes. It's unclear to me how the backend (a process on the same machine) could not be responding but still doing the recordings. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The recording of Planes must have finished by now so I may just reboot the machine and see if it's any healthier. Anyway, as I was writing these further commentsthe menu did eventually pop up, and its options are</div><div><br></div><div>record this</div><div>recording options ></div><div>programme details</div><div>jump to time ></div><div>reverse channel order</div><div>channel search</div><div><br></div><div>None of them seems to have very much to do with "watch this channel" so I'm not too sure where to go from here. Let me see if I can exit gracefully. It doesn't look like it' s responding to ESC but maybe it' s just that it takes a couple of minutes to service keypresses... YES, that was that. Managed to exit the frontend without crashes. Now stopping the backend with</div><div> sudo systemctl stop mythtv-backend.service<br></div><div>which is taking a few minutes too.</div><div>OK, done.</div><div>Now looking at the end of /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log and it says...</div><div><br></div><div>Dec 24 10:45:43 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: E DVBRead mpeg/mpegstreamdata.cpp:783 (ProcessPAT) MPEGStream[2](0x7f3588205450): ProcessPAT: Program not found in PAT. Rescan your transports.<br>Dec 24 10:45:43 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: E DVBRead mpeg/mpegstreamdata.cpp:399 (CreatePATSingleProgram) MPEGStream[2](0x7f3588205450): Desired program #3001 not found in PAT.#012#011#011#011Cannot create single program PAT.<br>Dec 24 10:45:52 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: E TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3988 (TuningSignalCheck) TVRec[2]: TuningSignalCheck: SignalMonitor timed out<br>Dec 24 10:47:36 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3704 (TuningFrequency) TVRec[2]: TuningFrequency<br>Dec 24 10:47:48 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: E Commflag_11806 jobqueue.cpp:2368 (DoFlagCommercialsThread) JobQueue: Advert Detection Errored: Planes recorded from channel 7941 at 2017-12-24T09:00:00Z (Failed with exit status 140)<br>Dec 24 10:48:10 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: I TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3704 (TuningFrequency) TVRec[1]: TuningFrequency<br>Dec 24 10:48:12 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: E DVBRead recorders/dtvsignalmonitor.cpp:322 (HandlePAT) DTVSigMon[1](/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Program #52039 not found in PAT!#012Program Association Section#012 PSIP tableID(0x0) length(77) extension(0x832)#012 version(2) current(1) section(0) last_section(0)#012 tsid(2098) programCount(17)#012 program number 0 has PID 0x0010#012 program number 53520 has PID 0x0106#012 program number 53540 has PID 0x0103#012 program number 53560 has PID 0x0101#012 program number 53515 has PID 0x0105#012 program number 53525 has PID 0x0100#012 program number 53530 has PID 0x010f#012 program number 53558 has PID 0x0115#012 program number 53550 has PID 0x0113#012 program number 53599 has PID 0x0108#012 program number 53598 has PID 0x0110#012 program number 53510 has PID 0x0109#012 program number 53505 has PID 0x0107#012 program number 53555 has PID 0x0111#012 program number 53565 has PID 0x0114#012 program number 53545 has PID 0x0112#012 program number 53535 has PID 0x010e<br>Dec 24 10:48:12 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: E DVBRead mpeg/mpegstreamdata.cpp:783 (ProcessPAT) MPEGStream[1](0x7f359c1932d0): ProcessPAT: Program not found in PAT. Rescan your transports.<br>Dec 24 10:48:12 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: E DVBRead mpeg/mpegstreamdata.cpp:399 (CreatePATSingleProgram) MPEGStream[1](0x7f359c1932d0): Desired program #52039 not found in PAT.#012#011#011#011Cannot create single program PAT.<br>Dec 24 10:48:22 sgrizzo mythbackend: mythbackend[5515]: E TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3988 (TuningSignalCheck) TVRec[1]: TuningSignalCheck: SignalMonitor timed out<br></div><div><br></div><div>....where again I can't make heads or tails of it but I sense a general unhappiness ("timed out") as well as a repeated plea to "Rescan your transports", whatever that means and however that's done.</div><div><br></div><div>Does this give meaningful hints to people smarter than me?</div><div><br></div><div>In the meantime I'll send off this email and reboot the box---always the blunt weapon of choice against voodoo.<br></div></div></div></div>