[mythtv-users] diagnosing HDHome Run Prime zero byte recordings

[Mike Perkins]

On 17/10/13 01:58, Larry Roberts wrote:
> So I switched from a PVR350 to an HDHome Run Prime and all has been well other
> than after a random period of time I will start getting zero byte recordings.
>
> If I go and reboot the HDHRP box it starts working again, until a random time,
> perhaps a day perhaps 3-4 days later when I start getting 0 byte files.  In
> searching the logs I see this, which appears to be the only "interesting" bit
> about one of the recordings that failed.
>
> 2013-10-16 20:00:00.619191 E [1937/760] HDHRStreamHandler
> dtvsignalmonitor.cpp:321 (HandlePAT) - DTVSM(131852AD-2): Program #0 not found
> in PAT!
> Program Association Section
>   PSIP tableID(0x0) length(13) extension(0x0)
>        version(1) current(1) section(0) last_section(0)
>        tsid(0) programCount(1)
>    program number     1 has PID 0x0031
>
This invariably means that the broadcaster has changed something being sent out 
such that the list of channels which you originally scanned no longer matches 
what is being transmitted.

So, yes, it is nothing you have done but the mismatch means that myth may have 
problems finding the correct channel to tune. It may be a new channel added or 
one moved or renamed/renumbered.

One possible cause is channels which are only part-time, ie they aren't there 
when you did the scan during the day but are there when you come to record in 
the evening (or vice versa). In the UK we get this situation with the children's 
channels, for example.

The only option is to rescan again, I'm afraid.

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Mike Perkins