[mythtv-users] everyday i have to make sure myth worked the day before

[Alex Tomlins]

On 01/04/11 12:01, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> There used to be a time when my wife would accuse Mythtv of not
> recording something it was supposed to and without even questioning it I
> would defend Mythtv and say, if it was supposed to record it, it did.
> And every time I was proven correct.
>
> Lately however, I spend a few minutes every single morning looking over
> the "Upcoming Recordings" schedule for the previous 24 hours (which I
> keep open in a browser window and keep a day or 3 "behind" since there
> is no way to ask Mythweb for what the schedule was in the past) and make
> sure that everything that was supposed to record did and was recorded
> completely.
>
> And sadly, every few days I have to go report to my wife when something
> that was supposed to record didn't, for no fault of our own, but due to
> mythbackend locking up and/or having to be restarted so that a frontend
> can communicate with it, etc.
>
> Every time this happens it gets harder and harder to continue selling
> how we should keep using it and how we should not slide back into the
> ugly mode of scheduling our lives around when television shows are
> airing so that we can sit down in front of the television while the show
> is airing to make sure we don't miss it.

I had similar issues a while back (I think I even added a gdb trace to a 
ticket you created).  The problem seems to have gone away for me now.

I'm running 2 Hauppauge Nova-T PCI cards. What I think fixed it was to 
increase the tuning delay to 500ms for both cards.  I also disabled 
Active EIT scanning on one of the cards.  Interestingly, after making 
those changes, it locked up once more on me shortly afterwards, but 
hasn't again since.

thanks,
Alex

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