[mythtv-users] entry to LiveTV fails when available tuner does not have desired channel in db

[Thomas Boehm]

On 08/11/14 16:45, Steven Adeff wrote:
> Nov  7 08:03:42 MythCenter mythbackend: mythbackend[29633]: E
> TVRecEvent channelutil.cpp:1940 (GetChannelData) GetChannelData()
> failed because it could not#012#011#011#011find channel number '52' in
> DB for source '2'.
> Nov  7 08:03:42 MythCenter mythbackend: mythbackend[29633]: E
> TVRecEvent recorders/channelbase.cpp:221 (IsTunable) ChannelBase[7]:
> IsTunable(MPEG2TS,52) Failed to find channel in DB on input '7'
> Nov  7 08:03:42 MythCenter mythbackend: mythbackend[29633]: E
> TVRecEvent recorders/channelbase.cpp:171 (Init) ChannelBase[7]:
> Setting start channel '52' failed, #012#011#011#011and we failed to
> find any suitible channels on any input.
> Nov  7 08:03:42 MythCenter mythbackend: mythbackend[29633]: I
> TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3603 (TuningCheckForHWChange) TVRec[7]: HW
> Tuner: 7->7
> Nov  7 08:03:42 MythCenter mythbackend: mythbackend[29633]: E
> TVRecEvent channelutil.cpp:1940 (GetChannelData) GetChannelData()
> failed because it could not#012#011#011#011find channel number '52' in
> DB for source '2'.
> Nov  7 08:03:42 MythCenter mythbackend: mythbackend[29633]: E
> TVRecEvent recorders/dtvchannel.cpp:241 (SetChannelByString)
> DTVChan[7](192.168.1.117-0): SetChannelByString(52): Unable to find
> channel in database.
> Nov  7 08:03:42 MythCenter mythbackend: mythbackend[29633]: E
> TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:3793 (TuningFrequency) TVRec[7]: Failed to set
> channel to 52. Reverting to kState_None
> Nov  7 08:03:42 MythCenter mythbackend: mythbackend[29633]: I
> TVRecEvent tv_rec.cpp:1050 (HandleStateChange) TVRec[7]: Changing from
> WatchingLiveTV to None
> 
> HDPVR tuners were in use, so entry into LiveTV correctly attempted to
> use the HDHR. However, for some reason MythTV wanted to enter live tv
> on a channel that is not in the database for the source the HDHR is
> on. I don't know why, or how it chose the channel it did, or why it
> did not, upon failing, attempt to tune any channel that is available
> on that tuner.
> 
> Is there some setting that may be incorrectly set that would cause
> this behavior?

Have you connected both tuners to the same video source? If the tuners
don't have the same channels, then you need to configure one video
source for each physical tuner and do a channel scan for each of them.