[mythtv-users] UK Freeveiw HD: problems with ITV HD

[Paul Gardiner]

On 09/08/2015 21:09, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 09/08/15 20:20, HP-mini wrote:
>> On Sun, 2015-08-09 at 19:52 +0100, Paul Wootton wrote:
>>>> On 9 Aug 2015, at 19:16, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hoi Saul,
>>>>
>>>> Sunday, August 9, 2015, 8:11:14 PM, you wrote:
>>> _______________________________________________
>> As power cycling of USB tuner sticks was suggested by hard reset of PC..
>> To avoid power cycling just to hard reset USB tuner sticks you could try
>> using:
>> usb_modeswitch -v VID -p PID --reset-usb -b bus-num -g device-num
>> You have to find VID, PID, bus-num & device-num from lsusb/dmesg etc..
>> YMMV but works with HVR-850..
>>
>
> I ought to report that the recording I started in response to the
> initial post failed about 18 minutes later.  This was on the laptop with
> 290e tuner that I had retuned shortly beforehand after my out-of-area
> expedition; it hadn't made any other recordings before this one.  At
> present it's not clear what went wrong, but I got several reports of
> 'poll took an unusually long time' - and that's over 30 seconds.

I don't think there is anything wrong with my 290e: other than ITV HD
recordings are fine and I've had no failures in months. I wonder what
could be causing the errors:

   ProcessPAT: Program not found in PAT. Rescan your transports.
   Desired program #21010 not found in PAT.
   Cannot create single program PAT.