[mythtv-users] frontend duing whist watching live tv leaves tuner on backend locked

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Aug 26 21:24:32 UTC 2008


On 08/26/2008 05:09 PM, Nick Morrott wrote:

>  On 26/08/2008, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>
> > On Aug 26, 2008, at 11:51 AM, John Taylor wrote:
> >
> >> As it says in the subject line, if my diskless frontend crashes
> >> whilst watching live tv off the remote backend (which has 3
> >> tuners- 2 nova-t and 1 nova-s) and requires powercycling then I
> >> find the tuner locked in the backend to that frontend. The
> >> frontend and the backend are then reduced to only being able to
> >> use the 2 free tuners.
> >>
> >> I can't change the filter to livetv and then delete what's being
> >> recorded from either the backend, the same frontend, mythweb or
> >> another frontend, nor can I find a way of using that tuner again
> >> unless myth-backend is restarted.
> >>
> >> This is a problem for WAF as she often leaves the machine playing
> >> live tv and turns the tv off and goes to bed.
> >
> > My kids were so upset about the frontend crashing when they left
> > LiveTV on that they stopped doing it. :) I even programmed my
> > Harmony Remote's power button to bring MythTV back to the main menu
> > as well as turning off the TV/receiver so they don't even have to
> > think about it any more.
> >
> > The real answer is to figure out why your frontend is crashing. It
> > shouldn't.
>
>  IMO the solution is to have mythbackend poll connected mythfrontends
>  to make sure i) they are still connected, and ii) still watching
>  LiveTV. The issue of inputs being tied up by 'ghost' LiveTV sessions
>  has come up several times over the years. I am not sure whether both
>  of these checks are currently implemented, but I would guess the
>  second check may not be.

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/dev/257270#257270

Mike



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