[mythtv-users] livetv vs recordings tuner use

[John Finlay]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> John Finlay wrote:
>   
>> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
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>>> John Finlay wrote:
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>>>> I started a livetv session by mishandling the remote when the tv was off 
>>>> and so it was recording for a few hours. Meanwhile I had set up mythtv 
>>>> to record a program during that time period. I noticed that the 
>>>> recording didn't happen because the tuner was in use with the livetv. I 
>>>> have two identical tuners and at the time the other wasn't being used. I 
>>>> would have expected mythtv by default to notice that the other tuner 
>>>> wasn't being used and was capable of recording the program and then 
>>>> switched to using the other tuner. Is there a setting to allow that 
>>>> behavior?
>>>>
>>>> I'm using mythbuntu with 20.2.
>>>>
>>>> John
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>>>>         
>>> There's a setting to allow LiveTV to reschedule recordings. Don't recall 
>>> exactly where it is off hand. However, it should have prompted you with 
>>> a dialog box that said something like, "Hey.. I need to record. Do you 
>>> want to watch while I record, exit to the main menu and let me record or 
>>> cancel the recording and keep watching TV?" (not in those words). The 
>>> default which is accepted after a short time is to watch while it 
>>> records so your program should have recorded. Not sure why it didn't.
>>>   
>>>       
>> It might have prompted me but the tv was off and the livetv was started 
>> by accident. I was hoping mythtv would automatically switch to using an 
>> available tuner instead of the one that it had allocated. My thinking 
>> was that the tuners that using the same source, etc. would be treated as 
>> a pool that could be selected from by mythtv when recording needed to be 
>> done.
>>     
>
> Right, but you need to trigger a reschedule so MythTV knows you have 
> changed the state of that tuner from available to in use and it should 
> reschedule the recording.
>
> Again, if it prompted you, the default action would have happened if you 
> didn't answer and the tuner would have changed channels and recorded 
> what it was supposed to record originally.
>
> You should figure out why that didn't happen. It was put in place to 
> avoid this exact situation.
>   
So it should have recorded the program if the LiveTV question timed out. 
Looking at the log I can see:

2008-03-31 00:59:29.334 TVRec(12): ASK_RECORDING 12 29 0
2008-03-31 01:00:02.372 Started recording: The Shield "Haunts": channel 
1131 on cardid 12, sourceid 1

So it claims to have changed the channel and started the recording but 
it actually didn't. It just kept on recording on the same channel. I'm 
using a PCHD5500 so maybe there is some weird interaction there or just 
a bug. Also I would have expected it to switch to the unused tuner 
instead of just stopping the LiveTV but if the default had worked it 
would have OK. So what's the best way to figure out why it didn't do 
what it claimed it was doing?

Thanks

John