[mythtv-users] HD HomeRun Prime, CableCard, LiveTV works

[Matt Emmott]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> > Try increasing your tuning and signal timeouts using mythtv-setup's
> > Capture Card section. Don't be afraid to try something like 7000/10000
> > ms (and if it helps, you can lower them down to where they stop working).
>
> I wouldn't recommend getting too aggressive with lowering the
> timeouts, as my experience with cablecards is that occasionally they
> can take a bit longer to complete tuning. This is especially true if
> you have a tuning adapter. So you could lower it to where it seems to
> be safe and then occasionally have a failed recording. I'd think it
> would be better to play it safe. Is there really much to be gained by
> lowering the timeouts (other than getting an error back a little
> quicker if you are watching livetv)?
>
> --
> Ron Frazier
>
>
FWIW I'm seeing almost the same behavior (Charter in Massachusetts).
Recordings will randomly fail sometimes and work other times, and I end up
with a bunch of 0 byte recordings. The other night I went to watch the 10
o'clock news at about 10:15 but my recording was 0 bytes. I went to live tv
and was able to tune into the same channel, which is clear QAM (Fox 25 in
Boston, channel 786).

I have seen this behavior with live tv but it is much more rare.
Occasionally it takes 3 or 4 times to lock into a station. I set up the
three tuners individually because the Wiki said it was needed for the third
tuner to show up. --version tells me I am running

MythTV Version   : v0.24.2-4-g10d5624
MythTV Branch    : fixes/0.24
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