[mythtv-users] Live TV tuners conflicting with schedule recordings too often

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/05/2008 05:51 PM, Matt wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2008 6:34 PM, Rudy Zijlstra <mythtv at grumpydevil.homelinux.org> wrote:
>   
>> Matt wrote:
>>>    I'm seeing more and more issues where I'm constantly being
>>> presented with the dialog that myth is going to record something in 30
>>> seconds, and asking me if I want to watch and record, record and go
>>> back to main menu, or don't record.
>>>
>>> However - it's ridiculous that it's even asking me.  Why?  Because
>>> I've got enough tuners.
>>>
>>> I've got 4 SD tuners and 2 HD tuners.  I also have the setting
>>> checked: "Avoid  conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows".
>>>
>>> So, when I start up Live TV, it generally picks an HD tuner.  I pop
>>> open the guide, and pick a SD channel and it switches over to the SD
>>> tuner.  Now, whenever an SD recording starts, the prompt comes up and
>>> asks me what I want to do.  This is rediculously annoying because I
>>> have 3 other tuners it could pick... but instead, I have to STOP what
>>> I'm watching, go back to the main menu, start Live TV again (on an HD
>>> tuner), navigate to the guide, go back to the channel, and start it on
>>> another SD tuner.
>>>
>>> This is obviously not a desirable feature and is just simply horrible
>>> for a usability perspective.  Is it possible for the scheduler to
>>> re-shuffle the "best available tuner to avoid conflicts" anytime a
>>> channel/tuner changes in Live TV?  This problem hits me EVERYTIME I
>>> use Live TV anymore and a scheduled program comes up regardless of how
>>> many tuners I have available.
>>>
>>> Maybe tuner selection should be dynamic at recording time and only
>>> when every tuner is already scheduled to record does it prompt if you
>>> want to do something such as watch the other recording or not to
>>> record.
>> I'm seeing the same, and was considering on how to describe. I've also
>> selected "Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows".
>>
>> My available tuners:
>> master backend:
>> 1 - PVR500 (first tuner)
>> 2 - PVR500 (second)
>> 3 - PVR500 (first tuner)
>> 4 - PVR500 (second)
>> 5 & 6 - DVB-C set to max of 2 recordings  (prio setting of 2)
>> Slave backend tuner
>> 4x DVB-S each set to max of 2 recordings (prio setting of 1)
>>
>> All PVR500 are on prio setting of 0.
>>
>> This results in a scheduler recording preference of DVB-C, DVB-S, PVR in
>> case a channel is available on multiple tuners.
>>
>> By default one of the DVB-S tuners is selected. When however a channel
>> is selected that is only available on the master backend, it will switch
>> to tuner 1.... Which is also the first tuner the scheduler will select
>> (if DVB-C is already in use).
>>
>> Now if LiveTV would select the highest tuner in its type (in my case
>> tuner 4 of the PVR when switching to analogue), the problem would be
>> much less....
>>
>> I'll still have clashes on DVB-C, as its the best quality recording,
>> combined with a number of channels only available on it, and some avid
>> liveTV users :(
>>     
> Bruce or Chris P, any thoughts on what's going on in the scheduler?
> I'm considering submitting a bug report because I would say this is
> opposite of what is supposed to happen with the "avoid conflicts"
> setting.

Janne and Daniel and Shane are still working on some fixes for LiveTV 
with the new multirec-enabled code in trunk.

Mike