[mythtvnz] Determining which tuner card for a recording after it is recorded

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 02:44:01 BST 2015


On Mon, Sep 7, 2015 at 12:20 PM, worik <worik.stanton at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/09/15 11:03, Tony Sauri wrote:
> >> Some body on this list very helpfully suggested a way to query the
> >> > database to determine which tuner recorded a particular recording. To
> my
> >> > embarrassment  I cannot find the message.
> >> >
> >> > Can anybody help?  I have two tuners, one of which I suspect is a lot
> >> > better than the other.  I need to discern which is recording what.
>
> [snip]
> >> >
> > I would do something like this:
> >
> >  cat /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log | grep HandleRecordingStatusChange
> >
>
> Thank you.  Obvious!  A really good start.
>
> I have "cardid 1, sourceid 1" and "cardid 2, sourceid 1" and "cardid 4,
> sourceid 1".
>
> cat /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log | grep
> HandleRecordingStatusChange|perl -e 'while(<>){s/^.+(cardid \d.+)/$1/;
> print }'|sort|uniq -c
>     117 cardid 1, sourceid 1
>      23 cardid 2, sourceid 1
>      44 cardid 4, sourceid 1
>
>
> Odd, as I have two tuners:
>
> $ ls /dev/dvb/
> adapter0  adapter1
>
>
> The backend status on MythWEB reports for encoder status:
>
> Encoder 1 [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 ] is local on backend and
> is recording '3 News' on TV3. This recording is scheduled to end at
> 12:30 PM.
> Encoder 2 [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 ] is local on backend and
> is not recording.
> Encoder 4 [ DVB : /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0 ] is local on backend and
> is not recording.
>
> Does this indicates that adapter0 has two tuners and adapter1 has 1?
>
> And how do I match these with the information from lsusb?
>
> $ lsusb|grep 2040
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 2040:c000 Hauppauge Windham
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2040:7070 Hauppauge Nova-T Stick 3
>
> cheers
> Worik
>

Most physical tuners can ve set up to be more than one virtual tiner, I am
not sure if this is what you are seeing.
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