[mythtv-users] HDHR suddenly not recording

[John Welch]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Harry Devine <lifter89 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 04/22/2010 09:42 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Harry Devine<lifter89 at comcast.net>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I noticed that a recording that should've been recorded on Friday, in
>>> fact,
>>> was not.  I didn't really think too much of it at the time.  However,
>>> tonight I had the new episode of 24 set to record on one of my HDHR
>>> tuners,
>>> and it appears to not have gotten recorded, even though the logs seem to
>>> indicate it tried.  I store my recordings on its own disk at
>>> /storage/recordings (on Ubuntu 9.10 x64; myth version 23766 from the
>>> weekly
>>> auto-builds), and I see the following in my backend log:
>>>
>>> 2010-04-19 20:59:02.187 Started recording: 24 "Day 8: 9:00AM-10:00AM":
>>> channel 3295 on cardid 3, sourceid 3
>>> 2010-04-19 20:59:02.194 scheduler: Started recording: 24 "Day 8:
>>> 9:00AM-10:00AM": channel 3295 on cardid 3, sourceid 3
>>> 2010-04-19 22:02:00.949 TVRec(3): Changing from Watching RecordingOnly to
>>> None
>>> 2010-04-19 22:02:00.993 Finished recording 24 "Day 8: 9:00AM-10:00AM":
>>> channel 3295
>>> 2010-04-19 22:02:00.999 scheduler: Finished recording: 24 "Day 8:
>>> 9:00AM-10:00AM": channel 3295
>>> 2010-04-19 22:02:01.016 Reschedule requested for id 0.
>>> 2010-04-19 22:05:39.121 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
>>> '3295_20100419205900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
>>> 2010-04-19 22:05:49.630 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
>>> '3295_20100419205900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
>>> 2010-04-19 22:05:49.647 ProgramInfo, Error: GetPlaybackURL:
>>> '3295_20100419205900.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
>>> 2010-04-19 22:05:49.650 Preview Error: Run() file not local:
>>> '3295_20100419205900.mpg'
>>>
>>>
>>> What I can't seem to figure out is why the mpg file can't be found.  I
>>> have
>>> 2 other recordings happening at the same time (1 on the analog portion of
>>> my
>>> pcHDTV 5500 card, and 1 from my HD-PVR), and the video files are at
>>> /storage/recordings.  Has anyone seen this before?  Are there any other
>>> logs
>>> or logging options that I can use to figure out what's going on here?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harry
>>>
>>
>> Check the channels that didn't record with Live TV in Myth. Do they
>> tune or do you see a message about good signal strength but you get no
>> picture.
>>
>> Your messages are the same ones I got yesterday for the channels
>> Comcast just encrypted and the HDHR can no longer record. For me it
>> was everything above channel 33.
>>
>> - Mark
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>
> I installed the hdhomerun_config utility on my laptop and did a scan, and
> most of the channels appear to have been moved around, so I'm certain that's
> my issue.  What I'm not sure of is how to fix it.  Looking at the channel
> editor in Mythweb, I see that all of the HDHR channels have a freqid of 80
> and a finetune of 0.   However, these don't match what the hdhomerun_config
> is telling me.  For example, 1 channel may have been 26.2 (what I had
> previously written down), but now it is 27.4.  I don't see 26.2 in Mythweb
> anywhere.
>
> So, am I at the point where I have to rescan my HDHR inputs and sort it out
> that way?
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
> _______________________________________________

I think you have two options.  First, you can do the re-scan, which is
what I did when faced with this situation and I ended up doing a lot
of manual "fixing" of the channels afterward.  Second, you can look at
the scte65scan script.  There is a command-line option that will scan
for QAM channels.  I think this might be the cleaner option.  However,
I did not go this route because it was recommended that I wipe out all
my video sources first, and this meant I would lose all the setup work
I had done for my HD-PVR.  Short of wiping out the video sources my
only other option was to mess with the files that the scte65scan
script created and/or the MythTV mysql tables, which I didn't want to
do.

Of course this is coming from an "average" MythTV user.  Maybe some of
the experts have some better ideas.