[mythtv-users] Program I thought should be recorded wasn't... [Understood...]

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/13 Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>:
>
>
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Clay <nt4usb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  >  > >
>  >>  >  > > >    Is there a way to see both what recordings
>  >>  >  > users ask to be recorded
>  >>  >  > >  > but also see which ones are taken off the list?
>  >>  <SNIP>
>  >>
>  >> >
>  >>  >  Arrow down to it and type 'u' should give program
>  >>  >  details. Type 'o' to see upcoming episodes.
>  >>  >  fwiw, series I want to record I set up to record at
>  >>  >  any time on any channel. Surprising how many repeat on
>  >>  >  some obscure channel... Myth does a pretty good job of
>  >>  >  not recording the same show twice and if it does, the
>  >>  >  delete key is always close at hand.
>  >>  >
>  >>
>  >>  Yes, what you are explaining I basically understand. I don't think
>  >>  it's what I'm asking about however.
>  >>
>  >>  In my case I had programmed a show Saturday afternoon to be recorded
>  >>  on Sunday morning. It was on the list to be recorded and is still
>  >>  (unfortunately) on the list to be recorded. There was (presumably) a
>  >>  tuner available since the system has two tuners and only one was in
>  >>  use at 8AM. The listing said the program was on at 8AM, and it was.
>  >>  The tuner was available. So why didn't the program record?
>  >>
>  >>  Thanks,
>  >>  Mark
>  >>
>  >
>  > OK, here's what was going on. Don't ask me....
>  >
>  > In the area I live in Comcast is going through a rebuild of the cable
>  > system and switching to fiber. This means they move around channels
>  > and I have to go to Schedules Direct and change line-ups once in
>  > awhile. One of those events happened over the weekened. This is not
>  > the first time this has happened and it it didn't even strike me as
>  > important. I add a new line up, delete my cards, and then create new
>  > cards attached to the new line-up. Done it before.
>  >
>  > This week it seems that Myth decided to do something new to us.
>  > Starting Saturday it began making new recordings every hour on the new
>  > SciFi channel. (73) Myth took a tuner and dedicated it to recording
>  > channel 73 every hour. I assume it was myth since the files in the
>  > video directory were all owned by myth. It wasn't one long recording -
>  > it was numerous 1 hour recordings.
>  >
>  > Thing is that NONE of these recordings showed up in mythfrontend. My
>  > wife noticed late last night that with only 12 programs recorded we
>  > were out of disk space. I stopped Myth this morning, removed all these
>  > recordings, and then rebooted. So far Myth hasn't started recording
>  > channel 73 again but maybe it will at the top of the hour. If not it
>  > seems that at least I understand what was causing the system to only
>  > record on program on our list - the other tuner was busy recording
>  > everything you ever wanted to watch on SciFi!
>  >
>  > - Mark
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>  Sounds like LiveTV was stuck recording on that channel.
>
>
>  "Thing is that NONE of these recordings showed up in mythfrontend."
>  What if you change the filter/view to show the LiveTV recording group,
>  do you see them then?
>
>  Ash

Thanks Ash. It looks like that's exactly what happened. When I changed
the filter I see all the programs so possibly I hit 'R' when I was
checking out the new line-up and didn't notice it. My bad!

Again, thanks very much!

- Mark