[mythtvnz] New install setup - recording problem

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Paulgir <paulgir at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.
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>> 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:
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>> 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
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>> 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?
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> No, you only need 3 tuners to get 3 muxes. The backend log will tell you
> which tuner was used for each recording.
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>> Won't setting the number of tuners (virtual) to 1 force the use of 4
> hardware tuners to tune 4 programmes?
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Sorry i missed that part. Yes that is right. However to check which tuner
was used, check the log.



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