[mythtv-users] finding reason for cancelled recording

[Konstantinos Stathatos]

I may have another explanation besides sunspots as I have seen the same 
problem occur kind of consistently. I believe I see the problem of the 
mysteriously aborted recording immediately following another recording, 
ONLY when the recordings happening while we watch live tv (on a single 
video input system). In other words, the first recording starts while we 
watch live tv ("watch while recording" option) and we keep watching 
through the second recording (my wife usually just lets myth on live tv 
even when not watching). What I suspect is happening is that at the end 
of the first recording, myth tries to switch back to live tv, i.e. start 
the "live tv" recording, which causes the scheduled recording to be 
aborted as conflicted. Most (all?) of the times I do find the show I 
intended to record under the "LiveTV" recordings group (from where it 
can be "recovered" by changing the group of the recording). I think 
there is a "hole" in the scheduling process of 0.19 with the new 
handling of live tv. It seems like a bug worth reporting (and eventually 
fixing). Can anyone else confirm this pattern?

As a workaround, for now we avoid watching live tv when we expect something like that to happen.

Kostas

 > Adam Hirsch (mythtv at quakerporn.com) wrote:

> > > are you using a custom record rule for these shows?

> > Nope, simple "Record this program in this timeslot every day" rules, for
> > both shows.  Both at my default recording priority, 0.


> And, following up on my own post, last night the same schedule worked
> without a hitch.  I blame sunspots, I guess.

> Adam