[mythtv-users] Suddenly MythTV refuses to use both tuners

[Carl-Magnus Björkell]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell
> <carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I'm using MythTV on a openSUSE box, and upgrade to the newest mythtv
>> packages (packaged by packman) fairly often. I have two DVB-C tuners,
>> one which is equipped with a CI-reader for my Conax card to watch
>> encrypted channels.
>>
>> Myth has been conffed to use the unencrypted card whenever possible when
>> recording, so that the "better" card is free for live-tv if needed.
>>
>> A couple of weeks ago I started noticing that while one of the tuners
>> where recording, I could not get a channel lock with the other tuner.
>> Now I would think that this would be related to signal strength, were it
>> not for one thing: All recordings have also started to be scheduled ONLY
>> on the Conax-capable card. Both tuners work fine if the other is not
>> active (I've tried changing inputs etc, and it works).
>>
>> AFAIK no configuration has been changed, and this setup has worked like
>> a charm unchanged since the release of 0.21 (with the exception of a
>> change from XML-tv parsed programdata to EIT scans.)
>>
>> Has anyone had any similar problems lately, and more importantly, does
>> anyone have any idea about what could be causing this?
>>
>> As I said I've been using Packmans packages. The current version I have is:
>> MythTV Branch    : branches/release-0-21-fixes
>> Library API      : 0.21.20080304-1
>>
>>
>> Greets,
>> -Calle
> 
> I had a very similar problem. It turned out that my second tuner was
> constantly recording Live TV and therefore became unavailable at any
> time to record programs. It seems an unfortunate default setting in
> Myth is to not show Live TV recordings in the media library so we
> didn't even notice this was happening until my wife asked why we had
> no disk space when we only had a few hours of recordings.
> 
> You can look at your disk space usage or set the menu in the media
> library to show Live TV.
> 
> Probably you don't have the same problem but it's easy to find if you do.
> 
> Take care,
> Mark

Thanks for the suggestion. It was, just as you said, a long shot, and it 
doesn't seem to be the problem. I only have LiveTV recordings of shows I 
have actually watched, and I have plenty of free disk space.

Checking the encoder status in mythweb also gives me:
Encoder 1 is local on juggernaut and is not recording.
Encoder 2 is local on juggernaut and is not recording.

Keep the ideas coming :)

-Calle