[mythtv-users] HDHR 0-byte recordings

[Douglas Peale]

On 10/10/2010 10:05 AM, James Orr wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Douglas Peale
> <Douglas_Peale at comcast.net <mailto:Douglas_Peale at comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 10/10/2010 07:44 AM, James Orr wrote:
> 
>     >
>     >
>     > I'm still having a few issues.
>     >
>     > I did upgrade to 0.23.1 build 26437 (I'm on gentoo and that's the most
>     > recent ebuild) and redid the scan.
>     >
>     > First, when I go to the channel editor, I have no callsigns listed in
>     > the channels.  They all say "(Unnamed: 4099)", with different
>     numbers on
>     > each obviously.
> 
>     Did you look at all of your channels? (hard to do in mythsetup
>     channel editor, much easier in mythweb) On my system only a
>     handful get callsigns, only the OTA HD channels.
> 
> 
> Yeah, I looked through them all, none have a callsign.  I even did a
> select callsign from channel where sourceid = 4 directly in the database
> and they are all blank.  There's about 60 channels.
>  
> 
> 
>     >
>     > Next, when I start up the backend (HDHR records on a slave backend) I
>     > get these messages in the log ...
>     >
>     > 2010-10-10 10:33:46.545 MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd IS_BUSY)
>     > Unknown encoder: 26
>     > 2010-10-10 10:33:46.555 MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd
>     > GET_MAX_BITRATE) Unknown encoder: 26
>     > 2010-10-10 10:33:46.575 MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd IS_BUSY)
>     > Unknown encoder: 27
>     > 2010-10-10 10:33:46.585 MainServer: HandleRemoteEncoder(cmd
>     > GET_MAX_BITRATE) Unknown encoder: 27
>     >
>     > This must be something left over in the database, but deleting the
>     > tuners and adding them back makes no difference.  I can't find the
>     > references to encoders 26 and 27 in the database either.
>     >
>     > When I go in to Live TV I just get my HDPVR and when I go to change
>     > inputs there are no options.
>     >
> 
>     I don't know what is going on here, but 26 and 27 are pretty high
>     numbers if encoders are the same thing as tuners. How did you
>     delete your tuners?
> 
> 
> My tuner numbers are pretty high and getting higher due to deleting and
> adding them back in, also I've been running myth since 2004 and have had
> quite a few different tuners in that time.  I deleted them with "Delete
> all capture cards on [hostname]".  There's no encoder 26 or 27 in the
> capturecard or cardinput tables, not sure where else to look.

Try deleting with "Delete all capture cards" instead. That should reset your tuner numbers back to low numbers.