[mythtv-users] HDHR suddenly not recording

[Harry Devine]

On 04/22/2010 12:47 PM, John Welch wrote:
> 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.
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>    
Last night, I went through the process of rescanning my HDHR channels 
and deleting the unwanted ones.  Went pretty smoothly, so I'm back in 
business.  But while I was doing this, another related question came to 
mind that I thought I'd bring up.  The digital portion of my pcHDTV5500 
card gets the same QAM/OTA channels that the HDHR gets, so I guess I'll 
have to rescan that too, huh?  If that's the case, then I may go the 
"delete all cards/sources" route and clean everything up.  Sucks, but 
that's the cleanest in the long run.  FWIW, the analog portion of that 
card, where I get channels 2-99 from Comcast, is still OK so far (as I 
knock on wood here! ).

Thanks for all of the help!
Harry