[mythtvnz] Recordings not happening without a reboot

[Worik Stanton]

On 20/06/14 13:24, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>>> >> Are all your tuners working?  Go to WatchTV, then use the M -> Source
>>> >> -> Switch Input menu to change to one multirec tuner from each of your
>>> >> physical tuners and make sure each tuner is working.
>>> >> 
>> >
>> >I have tested that.  No they are not.   forgot that in my original email.
> So the tuners have stopped working at some point before you notice the
> lack of recordings.  That is a big symptom.  You need to go back
> through the logs (including syslog and kern.log) from when recordings
> fail to see if there is anything about the tuners.  And you should try
> "restart mythtv-backend" rather than a reboot to see if that gets
> things working again - it might be the tuners are working but
> mythbackend is not talking to them.  And check they are still there
> when the problem happens - do "ls -al /dev/dvb*".  If mythbackend
> could not see the tuners, it should have been marking all the
> scheduled recordings as conflicts.
> 

Restarting myth-backend is what I did originally.  I am 800 miles from
my box now so I cannot test it but I am fairly sure that was not enough.
 Which does make it clear I am looking, probably, at a problem with the
tuners, but the complete lack of log stuff is puzzling.  When I get home
we will see if the more verbose logs are more revealing.


Perhaps if the tuners are off line myth simply does not bother to record
until they come back.  Now I am making wild guesses.

What should I be looking for in the system logs/myth logs for the moment
of failure of the tuners?

lastly my myth set-up is a dogs breakfast.  I moved machines several
times and each time struggled to keep my recordings.  I have looked on
the interweb and it does seem that it is more trouble than it is worth.
 When my NAS gets back from the shop I think I will cut my losses and
through away all old data and start from scratch.

IMO mythtv is suffering from trying to do far too much, and it is
therefore much too complex and hence unstable and fragile.  I run an
apache web-server that does as much complex stuff, but you would not
know from the trouble it gives me, very little.

W


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