[mythtv-users] hdpvr channel change issue

[Steven Adeff]

SOLVED! (see below)

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Johnny Stenback
> <mythtv-users at jstenback.com> wrote:
>> On 10/18/2010 05:30 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM, John P Poet<jppoet at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Thanks for the reply, but my channum and freqid fields match, and the
>>> chanid is that number with the source # in front of it, so that looks
>>> like it's not the issue.
>>>
>>> what seems to be happening is that myth doesn't even try to run the
>>> channel change script, it's like it's trying to tune /dev/video2
>>> directly, even though I give it a script command to run.
>>
>> IIRC I saw something like this a long time ago when I had accidentally
>> entered a channel in the "Preset tuner to channel" setting for the input
>> connection in question. HD-PVR's can't be tuned, so that setting needs to
>> remain empty.
>
> Ah! That could very well be it. It was filled in when I created the
> device in mythtv-setup, but I will remove the value and see what
> happens.
>
> Thanks!

ok, I did this remotely from work, but I cleared the preset channel
field for the tuner then using mythweb told myth to record one of the
channels assigned to the hdpvr and then checked the recorded programs
page and it showed up. checking the backend logs  verified that the
channel change and recording occurred. I can't tell if it properly
changed the channel, etc. but it did begin to accept data from the
hdpvr and all, so it looks like that worked out properly.

Thanks JST!!

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