[mythtv-users] My Dad keeps missing Emmerdale & Coronation Street?(Could not connect to server "" @ port -1)

Mike Dent mcdent at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 18:20:17 UTC 2010


Hi Mark,
thanks for that, I will give it a check, its worth a try.
And thanks to others for replies btw.
Mike


2010/1/17 Mark Garland <mythtvusers at markgarland.co.uk>:
>> I built a MythTV box for my dad, 82 years young, about 1 year ago.
>> It's based on myth 0.21. and contains 2 x Nova-T cards.
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> Have you tried tinkering with the tuner delay setting?  It's in the
> mythtv-setup util.
>
> I have 1 nova-t card and a nova-td-500, and I had issues where I would miss
> programmes.  Mine were caused by the fact that the nova-td-500 is
> represented as a usb device and Ubuntu would shut it down if it wasn't used
> for a period of time.  I doubt this is your issue, but I do remember reading
> that the tuner-delay setting can help the nova-t cards which IIRC can be
> slower to tune.
>
> Worth a quick check?
>
> Thanks,
>
> MG
>
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