[mythtv] *buntu trusty ppa: loss of multirec

[John Pilkington]

On 27/01/16 14:14, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --------------
>> 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

Yes.  2 default, I use 5, but now no effect.

mysql> select cardid, parentid, videodevice, schedorder, livetvorder 
from capturecard ; 

+--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
| cardid | parentid | videodevice                 | schedorder | 
livetvorder |
+--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
|      1 |        0 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          1 | 
    5 |
|      2 |        1 | /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 |          0 | 
    0 |
+--------+----------+-----------------------------+------------+-------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Cheers,

John