[mythtv-users] hdpvr channel change issue

[John P Poet]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> I get this in the backend log when myth tries to use the HDPVR,
> 2010-10-18 19:59:39.936 TVRec(5): HW Tuner: 5->5
> 2010-10-18 19:59:40.024 Channel(/dev/video2) Error:
> GetCurrentChannelNum(858): Failed to find Channel
> 2010-10-18 19:59:40.033 Channel(/dev/video2)::TuneTo(858): Error,
> failed to find channel.
> 2010-10-18 19:59:40.041 TVRec(5) Error: Failed to set channel to 858.
> Reverting to kState_None
>
> I have it set for that tuner to run a script that changes the channel
> on the cablebox, just like my firewire tuners.
>
> I don't get why I'm getting this error with the HDPVR tuner?

I had something similar happen when my DB got slightly corrupt.  In my
case, the "channel" table had lost the data out of the freqid column.
For the HD-PVR, the data in that column should be the same as the data
in the channum column.

John
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