[mythtvnz] New install setup - recording problem

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
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>>> I did delete all tuners etc. via the BE setup prior to issuing the mysql
>>> truncate commands.
>>> I did do the    drop database mythconverg;   source
>>> /usr/share/mythtv/sql/mc.sql
>>> And that did not help but I may have repeated the original error.
>>>
>>> I agree that your process for a new install is preferable to my immediate
>>> restore of an old db.I will follow that after I pursue one more lead that
>>> has shown up.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>
>> If the HDHRs are still not working, you could install Wireshark and
>> capture all the traffic to them from MythTV.  That might give us some
>> clues as to what the problem is.  And do a separate capture of the
>> traffic when they work using their setup tools or me-tv, for
>> comparison purposes.
>>
>>
> I'm just checking the functionality of my tuners again because it appears
> that in MeTV I get an error if I select /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 on both
> the 12.04 and 16.04 installs.
> These are the MeTV messages:
>
> 04/08/16 09:52:26: Not currently displaying 'TV ONE'
> 04/08/16 09:52:26: Exception: Failed to get available frontend
> 4/08/16 09:51:25: Exception: Frontend read failed
> (/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Value too large for defined data type
>
> Also, I have a bug in 12.04 that won't let me switch sources in live TV
> (HDHR or PCIe card tuners).The system locks up.
> So what I did to check if the Card tuner wasn't half dead was to reduce
> the number of tuners per device to 1 and record 4 programs from the 3
> MUXs.The tuners did all 4 successfully. Therefore I assume the 2 tuners in
> the card are ok as are the 2 in the HDHR.
> Is my logic correct?
>

No, you only need 3 tuners to get 3 muxes. The backend log will tell you
which tuner was used for each recording.



>
> Cheers
> -Paul
>
>
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