[mythtv-users] Mythtv reports my HD-PVR has an error

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/09/2012 04:29 PM, Adam Jimerson wrote:
> I have noticed that my MythTv box has not been doing any recordings 
> for the last week or so.  When I checked the system status from the 
> frontend it reports that the tuner has an error.  Looking into it 
> under dev I still see the video0 block device (was what the tuner is 
> setup as), the kernel modules for it are still loaded according to 
> "lsmod" command, and I don't see any errors in dmesg or any other 
> system logs.  In case it was just a mistake in MythTV I went ahead and 
> removed and recreated the tuner under Mythtv-Setup, even with that it 
> still reports it has an error.  To rule out a issue with the device 
> itself I ran the following:
>
> cat /dev/video0 > test.ts
>
> the output of it plays just fine under VLC.  I don't know where else 
> to look in order to resolve this.  I think this all started when I 
> rebooted the machine for a Kernel update, but I don't know what would 
> cause it to not work for MythTv.

Check the backend (or mythtv-setup) log output for useful messages.

Mike