[mythtv-users] 0.24 recording troubles

[Eloy Paris]

Hi Greg,

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 03:46:54PM -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:36:37AM -0800, Douglas Peale wrote:
> >
> >> I'm using two HDHomeRun boxes (four tuners), and not seeing this issue
> >> when a second recording starts on the same tuner, or when a second
> >> recording starts on a different tuner. At most there is a slight
> >> glitch in the recording when another recording starts in the middle of
> >> a recording.
> >
> > I think I got to the bottom of my issue -- in mythtv-setup, where one
> > adds the HDHomeRun tuners to the configuration, in the menu "Available
> > Devices" one can choose "manually enter IP address", and then enter IP
> > address of HDHomeRun and tuner to use, or one can select from a list of
> > auto-discovered devices. I have always used the manual method (enter
> > IP addr. and tuner) but it seems like if one configures the HDHomeRun
> > device manually in 0.24 things don't work and Myth never uses tuner 1
> > (I confirmed that Myth does not try to use tuner 1 by capturing traffic
> > during simultaneous recording and looking at the control traffic between
> > Myth and the HDHR -- I can see the commands being sent to the HDHR and
> > the responses since they show up in plain ASCII on the wire, and I never
> > see Myth try to use tuner1).
> >
> > After deleting all capture cards and re-adding the HDHomeRun tuners by
> > using the auto-discovered devices I was able to get things to work.
> >
> > The difference between manual config. and using discovered devices in
> > the database is that when using manual config, "videodevice" in the
> > capturecard table shows as 10.10.13.13-0, and when using auto-discovered
> > devices "videodevice" shows as 10194703-0. Guess something does not like
> > the a.b.c.d-n format.
> >
> > This seems like a bug in some part of Myth (or in the HDHomeRun
> > library). I'll go file a bug unless someone thinks this is some other
> > problem.
> >
> > Douglas, if you configured your HDHomeRuns by manually entering IP
> > addresses and tuner numbers then that ruins my theory.
> 
> I have a couple dual tuner hdhrs as well, and have not hit your issue,
> but I have never manually configured them.  In the example above, are
> you saying the IP dotted notation-0 was the name you typed in
> manually, or mythtv made it up on it's own?

No -- the GUI has two fields, one for the IP address of the HDHomeRun
and another for the tuner number, that are available once manual
configuration is selected in the "Available Devices" menu. After you
have entered both there is a read-only field in the same screen that
displays something like 10.10.13.13-0 if, for example, IP address
10.10.13.13 and tuner 0 have been entered. 10.10.13.13-0 is what
mythtv-setup finally enters into the database.

> Asking so I can file it away in my head as another naming convention I
> have to keep up with as invalid for one reason or another!

It really looks like a bug. I think the Release Notes for the release
are a good place to document an issue like this. I'll see if it can be
added.

Cheers,

Eloy Paris.-