[mythtv] Ticket #11520: Active EIT scanning will stop working if program not found in PAT

[Torbjörn Jansson]

> Subject: Re: [mythtv] Ticket #11520: Active EIT scanning will stop
> working if program not found in PAT
> 
> I'm running into this bug fairly regularly.  I have one ATSC channel
> that is a little weak and under certain atmospheric conditions will
> fail
> to tune causing the EIT scan to stop.  I'm planning on adding a
> separate
> antenna and card to improve the reliability of that channel.
> 
> This may become more of an issue to more people in a few months when
> snow and rain cause some of the weaker signals to drop out from time to
> time, and is something that I'd think developers would want to fix
> before 0.27 is released.
> 
> Has anyone looked into this problem?  If not, I'll try to find a
> solution.
> 
> Terry

I believe i'm seeing this problem too on my mythtv dev box.
There is no recordings or any other activity on it.
Only thing it is doing is eit scanning.

After a while it stops and then it is permanently stuck.
I checked my log files and the database and there have not been any eit
related activity for 2 days.
I don’t believe I have any reception problems.

All I have to do is to stop and restart the backend and then most of the
time eit scanning will work for a while.
I got some logs with -v eit if someone is interested.

There was no "program not found in pat" error.