[mythtv] *buntu trusty ppa: loss of multirec

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 27/01/16 13:03, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 26/01/16 12:32, John Pilkington wrote:
>> I hope this isn't another case of finger trouble, but...
>>
>> This is a test box, not in regular production.  It has a single
>> PCTV-290e DVB-T/DVB-T2 USB tuner which is recognised by the kernel.
>>
>> A recording I made on Saturday had an unexpected chanid, 18664 instead
>> of 1104, and I noticed a 'rescan your transports' notice, so I did.  I
>> have run the recent ppa builds of 87e72, a11db and currently 81f09.
>>
>> Since a11db, attempts to schedule simultaneous recordings on the same
>> mux have 'conflicted'.   Since I use pre/post roll this also applies to
>> sequential recordings. I was able to capture the content of the second
>> programme by extending the first recording.
>>
>> It's probably some time since earlier schedules required multirec, but
>> it used to work.
>>
>> Since the DVB-T/DVB-T2 explicit switching was introduced (#12342),
>> mythtv-setup.real no longer displays the adapter name, but appears to
>> accept other related inputs, and a new channel scan looks good.  I
>> usually allow 5 multirecs.
>>
>> I have tried 'mythbackend --setverbose none,schedule' but see nothing
>> obviously wrong when attempting to set a 'conflicting' recording from
>> the EIT-based guide.
>>
>> Any more suggestions welcome.
>>
>> John P
> ---------------
> dmesg extracts:
> 
>   20.393316] em28xx: New device PCTV Systems PCTV 290e @ 480 Mbps
> (2013:024f, interface 0, class 0)
> [   20.393321] em28xx: DVB interface 0 found: isoc
> [   20.393508] em28xx: chip ID is em28174
> 
>  20.749006] em28174 #0: Identified as PCTV nanoStick T2 290e (card=78)
> [   20.749019] em28174 #0: v4l2 driver version 0.2.0
> [   20.754215] em28174 #0: V4L2 video device registered as video0
> [   20.754218] em28174 #0: dvb set to isoc mode.
> [   20.754637] usbcore: registered new interface driver em28xx
> 
>    21.834753] tda18271 7-0060: creating new instance
> [   21.839610] TDA18271HD/C2 detected @ 7-0060
> [   22.083870] DVB: registering new adapter (em28174 #0)
> [   22.083885] usb 2-1: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Sony
> CXD2820R)...
> [   22.084835] em28174 #0: Successfully loaded em28xx-dvb
> [   22.084841] Em28xx: Initialized (Em28xx dvb Extension) extension
> 
>   397.081170] tda18271: performing RF tracking filter calibration
> [  400.155363] tda18271: RF tracking filter calibration complete
> 
> --------------
> mythtv-setup.real -v most (when probing;  the /dev string appears in the
> box but no device is identified below it)
> 
> 2016-01-27 12:39:20.849960 I  V4L2(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Closed
> 2016-01-27 12:39:20.850002 A
> TriggeredConfigurationGroup::triggerChanged(Failed to probe)
> Error:Failed to locate value in triggerMap
> 2016-01-27 12:39:20.869096 I  V4L2(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Closed
> 2016-01-27 12:39:20.889085 I  V4L2(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Closed
> 2016-01-27 12:39:20.889119 A
> TriggeredConfigurationGroup::triggerChanged(Failed to probe)
> Error:Failed to locate value in triggerMap
> 2016-01-27 12:39:20.909837 I  V4L2(/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Closed
> 
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> 2016-01-27 12:57:44.425939 C  mythtv-setup version: master
> [v0.28-pre-3497-g7963251] www.mythtv.org
> 2016-01-27 12:57:44.425950 C  Qt version: compile: 5.2.1, runtime: 5.2.1
> 
> 

Time for the silly questions. did you go into the recording options and
set multirec to > 1 ??

Regards
Stuart