[mythtv-users] Many recordings fail and then succeed a second later

[Daryl McDonald]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 1:56 AM Ross Boylan <rossboylan at stanfordalumni.org>
wrote:

> From that page it looks as if the tuning timeout is the relevant parameter
> for recordings.  Assuming this is the channel_timeout column in the
> database, I have the default value of 3 seconds.
> But the failure occurs only a fraction of second (~ 0.005 s =
> 15:58:00.145173 -15:58:00.140392) after the initial attempt.  So it doesn't
> seem even the values already set are being respected.  Even if the other
> timeout parameter of 1s is what matters, it's clearly well below that.
> Although the 2nd try is 1s after the first.
>
> Ross
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:29 PM Doug Lytle <support at drdos.info> wrote:
>
>> On 1/18/20 5:06 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
>>
>>
>> Less commonly, the recordings just fail.
>>
>>
>> Ross,
>>
>> Typically you need to increase your tuning timeout in mythtv-setup.
>>
>>
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Setup_Capture_Cards#Card_type:_HDHomeRun_networked_tuner
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
> Any dual tuner, in Mythtv set up like yours can record four programs only
if they come from only two muxes, so a third recording from a third mux
will always fail.
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