[mythtvnz] Scheduling conflict with multirec

Paul Kendall paul at kcbbs.gen.nz
Mon May 31 06:12:04 BST 2010


> Hello all,
> 
> I was looking through my conflicts and was surprised to see the following:
> 
> DVB0	Hell's Kitchen
> 2 - TV2	Tue Jun 1, 2010 (07:28 PM)	1 hr 7 mins
> 
> DVB1	Hitched
> 3 - TV3	Tue Jun 1, 2010 (07:58 PM)	37 mins
> 
> Conflict	♦♦♦House: The Choice
> 3 - TV3	Tue Jun 1, 2010 (08:28 PM)	1 hr 7 mins
> 
> DVB0	HD♦♦♦The Good Wife: Doubt
> 3 - TV3	Tue Jun 1, 2010 (09:28 PM)	1 hr 7 mins
> 
> DVB1	True Stories: Real Wolf Kids
> 9 - PRIME	Tue Jun 1, 2010 (09:33 PM)	1 hr 7 mins
> 
> 
> (I swear that the shows listed don't truly-represent my taste in
> television!) I have a dual-tuner DVB-T card with four multirec tuners for
> each real tuner.
> 
> I just added the Wolf Kids programme (hangs head in shame) now. None of
> the shows are set to record on a particular tuner.
> 
> If nothing else, it should be able to record all TV3 programmes on the
> same tuner and then record Hell's Kitchen and Wolf Kids on the other one
> (these don't overlap).
> 
> Can anyone suggest why the scheduling seems to have failed here before I
> manually fix it up? Is there some command that redoes the scheduling/tuner
> allocation? Is scheduling fixed up as part of mythfilldatabase (ie, if I
> leave this, would it fix itself up)?
> 
> I haven't had any issues with scheduling before, so am keen to get to the
> bottom of this before I fix it.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Aaron
> 
If you were watching LiveTV at the same time it could cause the problem
as it could be holding the tuner a multiplex so it cannot be re-tuned.

Cheers,
Paul



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