[mythtvnz] New install setup - recording problem

Paulgir paulgir at gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 04:16:16 BST 2016



> Input groups are only needed when there is mutually exclusive use of
> hardware, to tell MythTV that two pieces of hardware can not be used
> at the same time.  The usual example was the tuner cards you used to
> get that did DVB-T and analogue but only one or the other and not both
> at the same time.  But they produced separate tuner devices in Linux
> with separate drivers running them.  So you had to put each analogue
> tuner in the same input group as its counterpart DVB-T tuner.  Your
> HVR-2200 card is that sort of card, but even then, unless you are
> configuring and using the analogue inputs in MythTV, there is no need
> to set up input groups for its tuners.  The best thing with input
> groups is to leave them at their defaults unless you really need to
> use them.
>
> If you do need to use input groups, you need to know which analogue
> tuner matches which DVB-T tuner, and make sure that the matching
> tuners have the same input group, and that input group name is not the
> same as any other input group name on any other tuner.  The actual
> content of the name you choose is irrelevant, but choosing a good name
> helps to understand what it is doing when you come back to it later.
>

I'm re-installed everything and set up the backend manually.I'm still in  
the same situation.No tuners will allow viewing or recording.
I've deleted the tuners and set them up again to no avail.
Here is a few lines from backend log

Aug  5 15:03:48 myth mythbackend: mythbackend[2583]: I TVRecEvent  
tv_rec.cpp:1073 (HandleStateChange) TVRec[1]: Changing from None to  
WatchingLiveTV
Aug  5 15:03:48 myth mythbackend: mythbackend[2583]: I TVRecEvent  
tv_rec.cpp:3563 (TuningCheckForHWChange) TVRec[1]: HW Tuner: 1->1
Aug  5 15:03:48 myth mythbackend: mythbackend[2583]: I TVRecEvent  
tv_rec.cpp:3685 (TuningFrequency) TVRec[1]: TuningFrequency
Aug  5 15:03:48 myth mythbackend: mythbackend[2583]: E TVRecEvent  
dtvmultiplex.cpp:379 (ParseTuningParams) DTVMux: ParseTuningParams --  
Unknown tuner type = 0xffffffff80000000
Aug  5 15:03:48 myth mythbackend: mythbackend[2583]: E TVRecEvent  
recorders/dtvchannel.cpp:299 (SetChannelByString) DTVChan[1](11111EB6-0):  
SetChannelByString(1): Failed to initialize multiplex options

As before the HDHR tuners work fine for the HDHR setup GUI

-Paul



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