[mythtv-users] Slave backend screwing up master

[Bruce Markey]

johan Henæs wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I have a weird problem in my setup. (0.18.1 running on Ubuntu) 
> My Master Backend is running just fine as a "standalone". Due to lack of
> PCI-slots i had to place my second PVR 350 in my frontend, configuring
> it as a slave backend. Still everything looks fine, BUT - When starting
> my slave, the master backend gets problems capturing video. 

The fact that there is another machine out in the world shouldn't
affect the ability of the existing card to read data. Something
may have been inadvertently reconfigured in the process of adding
the slave but I suspect this is a misperception of the cause.

> When using only one capture-card the system consequently chooses the
> capturecard from my slave backend. If both are needed, i get the

Now this doesn't add up. If you left the original master card and
input as is, it would be the first choice and the slave would only
be used if there were two recordings at the same time. There is
something that you didn't explain here.

> following error-message on my master backend : 
> --
> 2006-01-28 15:08:21.419 Couldn't read data from the capture card in 15
> seconds. Stopping.
> --
> If I stop the slave backend everything works just fine on the master,
> and i can capture data manually from both cards using
> 'cat /dev/video0'...
> 
> Does anybody have an idea what is happening ??

Nope. But this would provide more solid clues.

$ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg
mysql> select cardid,videodevice,cardtype,hostname from capturecard;
mysql> select cardinputid,cardid,sourceid,inputname from cardinput;

--  bjm