[mythtv-users] 0.26-fixes: HDHR no longer recording?

[Steven Adeff]

On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> On 07/03/13 14:24, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Michael T. Dean
>> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/05/2013 12:20 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It looks as though for some reason our HDHR device has decided to stop
>>>> recording, or all the recordings are almost immediately deteleted. It
>>>> was working fine, but lately we noticed a lot of missed recordings, or
>>>> recordings that are being deleted extremely quickly (possibly because
>>>> they are 0-byte?).
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, looking through the log for one such recording there are some
>>>> things I don't understand, but could be tied to what's happening,
>>>>
>>>> so what stands out to me is:
>>>> this occurs a bunch,
>>>> Mar  3 18:58:20 MythCenter mythlogserver: mythbackend[18827]: E
>>>> ProcessRequest programinfo.cpp:2284 (GetPlaybackURL)
>>>> ProgramInfo(2402_20130304025800.mpg): GetPlaybackURL:
>>>> '2402_20130304025800.mpg' should be local, but it can not be found.
>>>> why is this file not local and not found? does this mean Myth was not
>>>> receiving data to create the file, or that for some reason this
>>>> recording it was unable to but other recordings it is?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It simply means the file isn't there.  In those cases because it hadn't
>>> finished tuning.
>>>
>>>
>>>> it then goes through a bunch of stuff that looks like things are ok?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, they are.
>>>
>>>
>>>> but at the end it shows this:
>>>> Mar  3 18:58:30 MythCenter mythlogserver: mythbackend[18827]: I
>>>> TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1519 (HandlePendingRecordings) TVRec(8):
>>>> Deleting stale pending recording 11 '60 Minutes'
>>>> which makes me think something failed along the way, but I can't tell
>>>> what?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sounds like the MythTV never gets any data from the card, so it
>>> eventually
>>> gives up?
>>>
>>> Time for a rescan?
>>>
>>>
>>>> anyone have any idea what's going on?
>>>> thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Full log paste below (with -v general,channel,record):
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For the future, please see http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Posting_Logs and,
>>> specifically, http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Posting_Logs#Why_bother.3F (it
>>> was
>>> annoying having to reformat the logs so they were readable)... Not to
>>> mention using real logs (with micro- or at least millisecond
>>> resolution)--not syslog logs with only per-second time stamps--would be
>>> better (that way I could tell you exactly when it got the good signal
>>> from
>>> the signal monitor and finished tuning, or pointed out other important
>>> events).
>>
>>
>> I believe LiveTV tunes fine. I'll verify.
>>
>> I don't see how to produce said "micro" or "millisecond" resolution
>> logs? Is there a setting change to how I have to run mythbackend to do
>> this? currently the command being run is:
>>   /usr/bin/mythbackend -v general,channel,record --logpath
>> /var/log/mythtv/ --syslog local7 --loglevel info --user mythtv
>>
>> I've got pastebinit installed and can run some tests to obtain the log
>> outputs. Please let me know how to get the higher resolution logs.
>>
>> thanks for the help!!
>>
> The time resolution for your log entries depends on the program used to
> write the log files - syslog, rsyslog, syslog-ng, etc.
>
> You will have to look for the configuration file used by whatever your
> distribution provides for you (I'm assuming you are using whatever is
> provided).
>
> For example mine (Debian) uses rsyslog and this is in my /etc/rsyslog.conf:
>
> #
> # Use traditional timestamp format.
> # To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line.
> #
> #$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
>

perfect, running Ubuntu so it looks to be the same. I assume all I
need to do is restart the rsyslog service after making the change, or
do I need to restart the backend?

thanks!

-- 
Steve
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Steveadeff
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