[mythtv-users] Scheduled recordings dropping first digit of channel number

[Dan Wilga]

At 5:45 PM -0400 5/8/07, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>Does the USB-UIRT have its own timing circuitry?
>>>
>>
>>Yes. That's the real reason I bought it. When LIRC is generating 
>>the carrier signal for a simple IR LED emitter, it can get 
>>interrupted by other things that happen on the system. The result 
>>is that tuning will sometimes fail. Dish's receivers are especially 
>>susceptible to this problem because they use a higher-than-average 
>>carrier frequency.
>
>Yep.  And, I would bet that's exactly what's happening to the OP's 
>signal (and what happened to mine).

I tend to think that's not the reason for the OP's problem. I 
experienced random failures on one or more digits in the sequence, 
but it wasn't always the first digit like he's seeing.
-- 
Dan Wilga                                                        "Ook."