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

[Carl-Magnus Björkell]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell 
> <carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi 
> <mailto:carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi>> wrote:
> 
>     Mark Knecht wrote:
>      > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Carl-Magnus Björkell
>      > <carl-magnus.bjorkell at pp.inet.fi
>     <mailto: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 :)
> 
>  
> Do you have them configured in an input group which would instruct Myth 
> that they cannot be used at the same time similar to a tuner and s-video 
> connection to the same STB?
>  
> Kevin
> 

Not knowingly no, but it could be possible I suppose. I just checked the 
myth-setup screens, and couldn't find anything about input groups. Where 
can I tinker with stuff like that?

-Calle