[mythtv-users] Live TV interfering with scheduled recordings

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu Oct 4 23:37:22 UTC 2012


On 10/03/2012 10:41 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Scott harris wrote:
>>>>>> Even though she isn't usually watching it my wife *constantly* has live
>>>>>> TV on,
>>>>>> and nearly always on a cable channel that I only have one tuner for
>>>>>> (HD-PVR /w
>>>>>> one cable box).  It used to be that if an upcoming recording needed to
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> that tuner it would popup a prompt asking the person using the tuner
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> live
>>>>>> TV if they wanted to watch the show as it records/not record/ or exit
>>>>>> live
>>>>>> TV.  Recently it seems the MythTV has broken and no longer prompts the
>>>>>> user
>>>>>> and just continues playing the current live TV channel.  In mythweb it
>>>>>> will
>>>>>> show the show it was supposed to record as "currently recording", which
>>>>>> you
>>>>>> can't delete and only goes away after you restart the backend.  The
>>>>>> tuner
>>>>>> status is shown correctly.  Recordings that don't either don't conflict
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> live TV or don't happen when live TV is on all work fine. I'm running
>>>>>> mythtv-0.25.2-2.fc16.x86_64.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone else have this issue or have an idea how to fix it (besides
>>>>>> re-training my wife as that doesn't work)?  I'm missing all kinds of
>>>>>> recordings.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, the prompt is broken.  However, make sure your configuration is
>>>>> such
>>>>> that
>>>>> the Live TV and Schedule order for your capture cards is
>>>>> different--ideally
>>>>> reversed--to ensure that the first card chosen for Live TV is the last
>>>>> chosen
>>>>> for recordings and minimize the disruption caused by it.
>>>>>
>>>> He says he only has the one tuner...
>>>>
>>> and even if he didn't it wouldn't matter, if the tuner he is watching
>>> live tv on HAS to be the one recording, it will still be put in the
>>> LiveTV group and not the group the recording schedule says it should
>>> be in, AND if he were to exit LiveTV while it's recording, the
>>> recording would stop.
>>
>>> I've just upgraded one of my systems to 0.26 so will be able to report
>>> back if this has truly been fixed shortly.
>>
>> I can tell you that as of today's Mythbuntu 0.26 builds, it is not fixed.
>> Though, exiting Live TV will not delete the recording (it actually records 2
>> copies of the show, using two tuners).  It still changes the Recording Group
>> of the scheduled program to "Live TV"
> Interesting this issue has persisted as long as it has with as many
> people complaining about it as there are.

and none of them doing anything about it...  (I'm sure you're not trying 
to imply that you're not getting your money's worth from the MythTV 
Customer Service department after all that money you payed for your 
MythTV software license and support agreement. ;)

Mike


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