[mythtv-users] mythbackend.log: Recording will not commence until a PMT is set.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 01/13/2013 02:52 PM, Kenneth Emerson wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Michael T. Dean 
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com <mailto:mtdean at thirdcontact.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 01/12/2013 07:11 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>
>         On 01/12/2013 05:57 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>             On 01/12/2013 03:59 PM, Kenneth Emerson wrote:
>
>                 Thanks for the suggestion. I do not have "Quick Tune"
>                 turned on.  I will
>                 set that option and see what happens and report back.
>
>
>             And if it helps, definitely try a rescan of your digital
>             sources, too.
>
>
>         I'll definitely do that, but before rescanning, is there something
>         I can dump (and save) to see if rescanning changed anything?
>
>         Since this only fails at times, I would have assumed (i know) that
>         the existing data is correct.
>
>
> Just wanted to report back. I set the quick tune option for all of my 
> HDHR inputs (total of 7) and then scheduled about 8 hours of OTA 
> broadcasts.  Of the 13 scheduled recordings, two failed with the PMT 
> error message being printed every 105mS for the duration of each 
> scheduled, failed recording.
>
> I did not do a rescan since I had added the new HDHR3 when I thought 
> the HVR-1800 was the culprit. At that time, I deleted all of the tuner 
> cards and re-added them, at which time, I performed a digital scan of 
> the OTA.  I did not scan the HDHR-Prime since that uses a cablecard 
> (and I'm not seing the problem there, although it is used much less 
> frequently).

Yeah, you can't scan with HDHR Prime (so, really, I should have said 
"rescan all your scannable digital sources, too." :)

Not sure what else to try, though.

Mike