[mythtv-users] Recordings from nonexistent channels

[Another Sillyname]

On 31 July 2012 00:31, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 31 July 2012 00:30, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 30 July 2012 20:51, Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi there
>>>
>>> I'm on 0.24-fixes.
>>>
>>> Occasionally (but too often to my liking) recordings fail. By "fail" I mean that something was recorded (i.e. good audio and video) but that it does not correspond with the metadate (i.e. with the program that I expected to be recorded).
>>>
>>> Looking at the backed logs, I see that the recording in question was recorded on a channel that does not exist. Example:
>>>
>>> Finished recording      Anvil: the Story of Anvil: channel 2019
>>>
>>> Where channel 19 does not exist (i.e. select * from channel where chanid=2019; returns the empty set).
>>>
>>> Any idea how to troubleshoot this?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Jan
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>>
>> Jan
>>
>> Try select * from channels where channum = '2019';
>>
>> and see what you get.
>
> sorry typo
>
> select * from channel where channum = '2019';

As an afterthought.......

select * from record;

and see if any of the recording rules were setup pointing at an old
chanid, if you've rebuilt the box since the original scan some of your
recording rules may have become orphaned.