[mythtv-users] Suddenly MythTV refuses to use both tuners

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell <
carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi> wrote:

>  Mark Knecht wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell
> > <carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm using MythTV on a openSUSE box, and upgrade to the newest mythtv
> >> packages (packaged by packman) fairly often. I have two DVB-C tuners,
> >> one which is equipped with a CI-reader for my Conax card to watch
> >> encrypted channels.
> >>
> >> Myth has been conffed to use the unencrypted card whenever possible when
> >> recording, so that the "better" card is free for live-tv if needed.
> >>
> >> A couple of weeks ago I started noticing that while one of the tuners
> >> where recording, I could not get a channel lock with the other tuner.
> >> Now I would think that this would be related to signal strength, were it
> >> not for one thing: All recordings have also started to be scheduled ONLY
> >> on the Conax-capable card. Both tuners work fine if the other is not
> >> active (I've tried changing inputs etc, and it works).
> >>
> >> AFAIK no configuration has been changed, and this setup has worked like
> >> a charm unchanged since the release of 0.21 (with the exception of a
> >> change from XML-tv parsed programdata to EIT scans.)
> >>
> >> Has anyone had any similar problems lately, and more importantly, does
> >> anyone have any idea about what could be causing this?
> >>
> >> As I said I've been using Packmans packages. The current version I have
> is:
> >> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes
> >> Library API      : 0.21.20080304-1
> >>
> >>
> >> Greets,
> >> -Calle
> >
> > I had a very similar problem. It turned out that my second tuner was
> > constantly recording Live TV and therefore became unavailable at any
> > time to record programs. It seems an unfortunate default setting in
> > Myth is to not show Live TV recordings in the media library so we
> > didn't even notice this was happening until my wife asked why we had
> > no disk space when we only had a few hours of recordings.
> >
> > You can look at your disk space usage or set the menu in the media
> > library to show Live TV.
> >
> > Probably you don't have the same problem but it's easy to find if you do.
> >
> > Take care,
> > Mark
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. It was, just as you said, a long shot, and it
> doesn't seem to be the problem. I only have LiveTV recordings of shows I
> have actually watched, and I have plenty of free disk space.
>
> Checking the encoder status in mythweb also gives me:
> Encoder 1 is local on juggernaut and is not recording.
> Encoder 2 is local on juggernaut and is not recording.
>
> Keep the ideas coming :)


Do you have them configured in an input group which would instruct Myth that
they cannot be used at the same time similar to a tuner and s-video
connection to the same STB?

Kevin
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