[mythtv-users] LiveTV issues (root caused to cable signals)

[Monkey Pet]

I was debugging LiveTV issues yesterday and discovered that my cable signal
was marginal.  When I removed a splitter and changed the coax cable, the
signal was better and my LiveTV issues went again.  LiveTV was working well
for a few weeks, then over the last weekend, I suddenly started having
issues, nothing changed with mythtv setup which was running 0.25/fixes.  I
wanted to post this since others with marginal cable signals might have
issues with LiveTV with mythtv.  My setup uses HDHR3 Prime with a cablecard.

I used the hdhomerun_config to determine my signal level.

[me at mythtv libhdhomerun]$ ./hdhomerun_config 1313E021 get /tuner0/status
ch=qam:759000000 lock=qam256 ss=62 snq=65 seq=100 bps=38809216 pps=1428


After re-cabling:
(notice the numbers jump)

[me at mythtv libhdhomerun]$ ./hdhomerun_config 1313E021 get /tuner0/status
ch=qam:759000000 lock=qam256 ss=76 snq=82 seq=100 bps=38809216 pps=994
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