[mythtv-users] 0.24 recording troubles

Douglas Peale Douglas_Peale at comcast.net
Tue Nov 16 22:09:52 UTC 2010


On 11/16/2010 01:46 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:36:37AM -0800, Douglas Peale wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using two HDHomeRun boxes (four tuners), and not seeing this issue
>>> when a second recording starts on the same tuner, or when a second
>>> recording starts on a different tuner. At most there is a slight
>>> glitch in the recording when another recording starts in the middle of
>>> a recording.
>>
>> I think I got to the bottom of my issue -- in mythtv-setup, where one
>> adds the HDHomeRun tuners to the configuration, in the menu "Available
>> Devices" one can choose "manually enter IP address", and then enter IP
>> address of HDHomeRun and tuner to use, or one can select from a list of
>> auto-discovered devices. I have always used the manual method (enter
>> IP addr. and tuner) but it seems like if one configures the HDHomeRun
>> device manually in 0.24 things don't work and Myth never uses tuner 1
>> (I confirmed that Myth does not try to use tuner 1 by capturing traffic
>> during simultaneous recording and looking at the control traffic between
>> Myth and the HDHR -- I can see the commands being sent to the HDHR and
>> the responses since they show up in plain ASCII on the wire, and I never
>> see Myth try to use tuner1).
>>
>> After deleting all capture cards and re-adding the HDHomeRun tuners by
>> using the auto-discovered devices I was able to get things to work.
>>
>> The difference between manual config. and using discovered devices in
>> the database is that when using manual config, "videodevice" in the
>> capturecard table shows as 10.10.13.13-0, and when using auto-discovered
>> devices "videodevice" shows as 10194703-0. Guess something does not like
>> the a.b.c.d-n format.
>>
>> This seems like a bug in some part of Myth (or in the HDHomeRun
>> library). I'll go file a bug unless someone thinks this is some other
>> problem.
>>
>> Douglas, if you configured your HDHomeRuns by manually entering IP
>> addresses and tuner numbers then that ruins my theory.
>>
> 
> I have a couple dual tuner hdhrs as well, and have not hit your issue,
> but I have never manually configured them.  In the example above, are
> you saying the IP dotted notation-0 was the name you typed in
> manually, or mythtv made it up on it's own?
> 
> Asking so I can file it away in my head as another naming convention I
> have to keep up with as invalid for one reason or another!
> 
> Thanks

I always used the auto discovery method. What are you doing to keep the IP address constant?


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