[mythtv-users] No longer tuning channels with Ceton card

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/18/2013 10:38 PM, Ronald Frazier wrote:
> Mike had sent the following response to me personally, but I thought 
> I'd share it on the list in case anyone else runs into this. His 
> problem was related to mythtv starting too quickly, before the ceton 
> driver had initialized the card. The first tuner failed to initialize, 
> but the other tuners worked fine. That's why playback worked in livetv 
> but not recordings (because the default tuner order was different, so 
> live tv was defaulting to a configured tuner, while recordings were 
> using a failed tuner)
>
> Michael A Weber wrote:
>> You may disregard my previous message.  In playing around with things,
>> and restarting mythbackend (but not the machine), I got access to that
>> first tuner.  So, I added 5 seconds of sleep to the mythbackend startup
>> script and all is well.
>

Ah, that makes sense.  If a tuner is unavailable on startup, MythTV will 
not recognize it and wouldn't be able to use it.

Mike