[mythtv-users] Card 10?

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 08/12/2013 11:31 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>
>> So, you'll just have to go into the Input Connections and select each one
>>>>> of the cards/inputs and look for the one that says "Please add
>>>>>  channels to
>>>>> this source" and change it to a proper channel number (as it sounds
>>>>> like
>>>>> you've properly added channels to the source since you originally
>>>>> configured
>>>>> the input).
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> BTW, if you do not do this, any time MythTV attempts to use that card,
>>>> it
>>>> will fail to set the channel correctly and you will lose a recording.
>>>>  So,
>>>> even though you haven't noticed issues, yet, I highly recommend taking
>>>> the
>>>> time to fix this.
>>>>
>>> I went back in and I have 9 card definitions, two of which are
>>> functional,
>>> showing their source as "motorola/antenna" with actual channel numbers
>>> for
>>> starting channel, and the other seven display (none) as source and also
>>> are
>>> blank for starting channel. What am I missing?
>>>
>>>  Sounds like your missing 7 source settings.
>>
>> In all seriousness.  Do you have 9 tuners?  If not, then you probably
>> created a few without realizing it.  I would delete all of your tuners
>> (using the appropriate command on the menu, don't delete them one at a
>> time).  Then re-add them, one at a time, adding the proper source and
>> selecting a good starting channel.
>>
>
> Yeah, it sounds like a misconfiguration.  Note that MythTV doesn't support
> having cards defined but not connected (i.e. if you define a card, it must
> be a fully-configured card with valid Input Connections).  Having "loose"
> or unconnected cards will result in problems--either immediately, weeks
> after defining the cards, or even months after.
>
> If that's what's going on, do as Joseph suggested and use "Delete all
> capture cards" (not "Delete all capture cards on <hostname>") to clear
> them, then re-define the ones you should have, connect their inputs, and
> set their starting channels, and you should be back up and running.  (Note
> that you do not need to rescan channels or anything).
>
> Mike
>
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Thanks gentlemen, I deleted and reconfigured, which got rid of the go back
and fix prompt. What I have is three capture cards, two of which work in
Mythtv, the PVR-1250 gives one definition in "input connections" and the
PVR150 lists five definitions (one tuner two composite and two S-video) in
"input connections" the third card that Myth saw but due to a new chip,
couldn't use, no longer presents in "input connections" and I assume must
have been causing the problem. Again much obliged.

Daryl
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