[mythtv-users] EIT fails in some channels

Josu Lazkano josu.lazkano at gmail.com
Mon Jan 13 15:23:48 UTC 2014


2014/1/13 Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com>:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:02:13 -0000, Per Kofod <per.s.kofod at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try
>>> 1 of 1)
>>> E Connection to master server timed out.
>>> Either the server is down or the master server
>>> settings
>>> in mythtv-settings does not contain the proper IP
>>> address
>>>
>>> E Unable to connect to backend, verbose mask unchanged
>>>
>>> [1]+ Exit 137 mythbackend --setverbose eit
>> You need to have mythbackend running, then issue the command
>> 'mythbackend --setverbose eit'
>>
>> --setverbose Change debug mask of the existing master
>> backend.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is puzzling, as this mythtv-settings do contain 127.0.0.1 and the
>>> listen to link-local checkbox is checked. The server is down, of
>>> course, as I'm trying to start it with the command that caused the
>>> error. "mythbackend &" (without the --setverbose eit option) works
>>> just fine.
>>>
>>> Mmm... Suggestions, anyone?
>>>
>
> Sorry - I should have been more clear.
>
> Options --setverbose and --setloglevel are a convenient way of changing the
> log level of your running backend 'on the fly'. They take the same flags as
> --verbose and --loglevel respectively.
>
> So "mythbackend --setverbose eit" will simply connect to the existing
> running backend, instruct it to change the log level, then terminate. Thus
> the errors about it not finding a backend server. To start the backend the
> equivalent is "mythbackend --verbose eit,general".
>
> And once you're done you can switch the logging off again with "mythbackend
> --setverbose noeit" without having to restart.
>
> If the active scanning isn't doing its job then maybe your setup is affected
> by one of the known tickets:
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/report/25?asc=1&page=8. 11476 & 11520 possibly ?
>
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Thanks Roger,

I activate de EIT debug and now I have lots of debug info in the backend log:

# tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log | grep "eit"
Jan 13 16:17:25 server  mythbackend[28034]: I EIT eithelper.cpp:100
(ProcessEvents) EITHelper: Added 1 events
Jan 13 16:18:25 server  mythbackend[28034]: I EIT eitscanner.cpp:114
(run) EITScanner (9): Added 4 EIT Events
Jan 13 16:18:25 server  mythbackend[28034]: I EIT eitscanner.cpp:181
(RescheduleRecordings) EITScanner: Rate limiting reschedules..
Jan 13 16:20:11 server  mythbackend[28034]: I EIT eitcache.cpp:294
(WriteChannelToDB) EITCache: Wrote 2 modified entries of 89 for
channel 3249 to database.
Jan 13 16:20:11 server  mythbackend[28034]: I EIT eitcache.cpp:294
(WriteChannelToDB) EITCache: Wrote 2 modified entries of 171 for
channel 3251 to database.
Jan 13 16:20:11 server  mythbackend[28034]: I EIT eitscanner.cpp:141
(run) EITScanner (11): Now looking for EIT data on multiplex of
channel 1
Jan 13 16:20:11 server  mythbackend[28034]: I EIT eitcache.cpp:386
(PruneOldEntries) EITCache: Pruning all entries that ended before UTC
2014-01-12T15:25:27Z
Jan 13 16:20:11 server  mythbackend[28034]: I EIT eitcache.cpp:112
(delete_in_db) EITCache: Deleting old cache entries from the database
Jan 13 16:20:13 server  mythbackend[28034]: I TVRecEvent
eitscanner.cpp:210 (StartPassiveScan) EITScanner (11): Started passive
scan.

I have 2 USB DVB-T devices with "active EIT scan" checked.

I will check this week in the logs, thanks and best regards.

-- 
Josu Lazkano


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