[mythtv-users] HDPVR Causing Backend to Hard Freeze

[Jason Sharpe]

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> Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 11:36:17 -0400
> From: Greg <greg12866 at nycap.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] HDPVR Causing Backend to Hard Freeze
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> On 05/24/2010 09:47 AM, Jason Sharpe wrote:
> >
> >     Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 23:43:35 -0500
> >     From: <mythtv.list at gmail.com <mailto:mythtv.list at gmail.com>>
> >     Subject: [mythtv-users] HDPVR Causing Backend to Hard Freeze
> >     To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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> >     Hello,
> >
> >     I have been fighting this issue for a days now and I wanted to
> >     throw this
> >     out there to see if anyone else has seen/heard of anything like
> >     this. I can
> >     recreate the issue over and over but I am not sure what is causing
> it.
> >
> >     When one recording is ending on a tuner and another is beginning
> >     on my HDPVR
> >     my whole backend hard freezes requiring a push of the reset button
> >     for the
> >     PC to come back up.
> >
> >     In Other Words:
> >     Tuner 1: HD Homerun Records from 09:00 - 10:00
> >     Tuner 2: HDPVR Has a show starting at 10:00
> >
> >     At 09:59 when the backend should start recording from the HDPVR
> >     the backend
> >     hard freezes.
> >
> >     Using that example above, if the HDPVR starts to record at 09:30
> >     everything
> >     is fine. It is only when 1 show is ending and another is beginning
> >     on the
> >     HDPVR.
> >
> >     I can record from each tuner just fine for multiple shows back to
> >     back on
> >     the same tuner without issue, so the tuners work.
> >
> >     Here is the strange thing, the other way around, there is no
> freezing.
> >
> >     Meaning:
> >     Tuner 1: HDPVR Records from 09:00 - 10:00
> >     Tuner 2: HD Homerun Has a show starting at 10:00
> >
> >     In that senerio, everything works just fine.
> >
> >     I have elimitated the HD Homerun as the source of the problem by
> >     trying a
> >     pcHDTV HD-3000 instead, still freezes.
> >
> >     Details:
> >     HD Homerun using Tuner 0 (Over the Air ATSC)
> >     HDPVR and a Dishnetwork ViP 211k receiver (Component and SPDIF)
> >
> >     Note: IR blasting is done via a homebrew serial blaster, I am
> >     _not_ using
> >     the HDPVR for blasting.
> >
> >     Both the HD Homerun and the HDPVR are running the latest firmware.
> >     I was
> >     going to downgrade the firmware in the HDPVR, but I read that the
> >     previous
> >     version had its own problems.
> >
> >     I am running Mythdora 12.23, mythbackend version: tags/release-0-23
> >     [0.23-1.md12 (r24509).
> >
> >     The backend log isn't much help, since when it freezes it can't
> >     write to it,
> >     heh (HW Tuner 44 is the HDPVR)
> >
> >     2010-05-23 21:58:00.784 Reschedule requested for id 0.
> >     2010-05-23 21:58:01.977 Scheduled 781 items in 1.2 = 0.01 match +
> >     1.17 place
> >     2010-05-23 21:58:01.991 scheduler: Scheduled items: Scheduled 781
> >     items in
> >     1.2 = 0.01 match + 1.17 place
> >     2010-05-23 21:58:29.861 TVRec(44): ASK_RECORDING 44 29 0 0
> >     2010-05-23 21:59:01.227 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> >     '5389_20100523215900.mpg'
> >     2010-05-23 21:59:01.346 TVRec(44): Changing from None to
> RecordingOnly
> >     2010-05-23 21:59:01.358 TVRec(44): HW Tuner: 44->44
> >     2010-05-23 21:59:02.471 ret_pid(0) child(11739) status(0x0)
> >     2010-05-23 21:59:03.484 ret_pid(0) child(11739) status(0x0)
> >     2010-05-23 21:59:04.501 ret_pid(0) child(11739) status(0x0)
> >     2010-05-23 21:59:05.519 ret_pid(0) child(11739) status(0x0)
> >     2010-05-23 21:59:06.536 ret_pid(0) child(11739) status(0x0)
> >
> >     The next line of the log is the backend starting after I had to
> >     push the
> >     reset button.
> >
> >     I am at my wits end, any ideas?
> >
> >     Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> >
> >
> > So I spent some more time working on the issue this morning.
> >
> > I downgraded the firmware of the HDPVR, no change, still hangs as
> > described.
> >
> > I reloaded the newest firmware of the HDPVR into it and changed the
> > USB port it was plugged into making sure it was on a different bus, no
> > change, still hangs as described.
> >
> >
> >
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> Most people with this problem add a sleep to their channel changing
> script...Search this list for hdpvr channel script... I would guess that
> is your problem also..
>


Thanks for the reply.

I had read that when I got the HDPVR, so since day 1 with the HDPVR I have
had a 3 sec sleep at the end of the script. I just checked my script and
confirmed the 3.0 sec sleep at the end.

Any other ideas?
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