[mythtv-users] BE off line

[John P Poet]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:41 PM, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Michael T. Dean <
>>>> mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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>>>>> On 08/19/2013 06:35 PM, Daryl McDonald wrote:
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>>>>>> When scheduled recordings get an "F" on the far right in upcoming
>>>>>> recordings, the program will not be recorded because my Back End is "off
>>>>>> line". The first time it happened I followed a wiki or some sort of thread
>>>>>> suggesting  deleting all cards and connections and reputting them
>>>>>> subsequently. I was able to record, for a day and a half, and  the BE went
>>>>>> off line again. If there is a better tack, I'm all ears, or eyes as the
>>>>>> case may be.
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>>>>> Ah, so you mean an offline recording status (presumably for all
>>>>> upcoming recordings?).  Assuming you didn't start the backend with the
>>>>> --no-sched development/testing option, an offline recording status means
>>>>> that all the backends that could possibly record that showing are offline.
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>>>>> If you have multiple backends, make sure that all of them are still
>>>>> running and accessible over the network when you see offline status for
>>>>> upcoming recordings.
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>>>>> If you're only supposed to have one master backend, this is probably
>>>>> due to an Input Connections configuration issue--generally it's caused
>>>>> (exactly as you described, where things seem to work for a while then at
>>>>> some time in the future just stop working) by having some defined, but
>>>>> unconnected, piece(s) in your setup.  So, for example, having capture cards
>>>>> defined, but no inputs connected to Video Sources, or having Video Sources
>>>>> defined, but not connected to any inputs, or having channels defined but
>>>>> not part of any valid Video Sources (even "shadow" channels--having
>>>>> multiple copies of channels defined).
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>>>>> If it's the latter, you may be using the right approach to clean it
>>>>> up--"Delete all capture cards" (not "Delete all capture cards on
>>>>> <hostname>" /and/ "Delete all video sources."  And, if you're using the
>>>>> right approach to clean it up, it means you're consistently making the same
>>>>> mistakes/misconfiguration when re-creating the pieces you've deleted.
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>>>>> See, also,
>>>>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/264034#264034
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>>>>> Mike
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>>>> Thanks for the info gentlemen, and for the patience, reading replies
>>>> and many other posts makes me feel like less of a newbie, despite the facts.
>>>>
>>>> Daryl
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>>>  Checking again today the recording status for my PVR-150 card is "F".
>>> If I'm reading you correctly, Mr. Dean I need to focus on my input
>>> connections after deleting all capture cards (not delete all capture cards
>>> on <hostname>) and reinstalling them. I've assigned motorola to the
>>> [MPEG:/dev/video2/](Tuner 1). Do I need to delete these other aspects of
>>> this card?:
>>> [MPEG: /dev/video2] (S-video 1)
>>> [MPEG: /dev/video2] (composite 1)
>>> [MPEG: /dev/video2] (S-video 2)
>>> [MPEG: /dev/video2] (composite 2)
>>> as these all have nothing connected to them and no source assigned? And
>>> if so how? I've tried highlighting and the "d" key, to no avail.
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>> I suggest looking at both your system logs, and the mythbackend logs.
>> There is probably a message in there somewhere which should give a clue as
>> to why your ivtv driver is having issues.
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>> You /may/ have to change your configuration such that mythbackend is run
>> with "-v record,channel" to get useful info.
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>> John
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> I'd be happy to look at such logs. Unfortunately I have very little
> experience in such matters and will greatly appreciate detailed
> instructions for exactly how to do this, please and thank-you.
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Unfortunately, the location of such logs can vary from one
distribution/install to the next.  On my Fedora19 box, the main system log
to look at would be:

/var/log/messages

and the mythbackend logs are found in the

/var/log/mythtv/

directory.

If you are familiar with IRC, I would suggest joining the #mythtv-users
(and #ubuntu-mythtv if you are using ubuntu) channels on irc.freenode.net.
That would allow you to get more real-time help.


John
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