[mythtv-users] Channellock

[Marvin]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 9:31 PM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> Some DVB-T channels here in New Zealand have a much longer tuning time
> than others.  When I upgraded to 0.28, I had to adjust all my DVB-T
> tuners to use 10000 for the capturecard.channel_timeout field in order
> to get our TV3 channel to tune properly.  The default is only 3000.
> There seems to have been a change between 0.27 and 0.28 that makes the
> right setting for channel_timeout much more important.  Previously, it
> would tune TV3 OK, but it seems to have done that by timing out and
> re-trying.  Now, if it times out, it seems it will fail to tune.  To
> adjust the channel_timeout settings, run mythtv-setup and select
> "Capture cards".  For each of the DVB-T(2) cards, on the first screen,
> change the "Tuning timeout (ms)" setting.
>

Thanks for this.  This is similar to my recent US OTA ATSC exprience with
an HDHomeRun Connect.  6000ms wasn't enough timeout, but 10000ms seems to
be working (so far).
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