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marco.nelissen at gmail

Jul 31, 2012, 8:56 PM

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what does "#" mean in the tuner column?

When I look at the scheduled recordings screen, it shows "#" in the
rightmost column, for all recordings.
It's recording just fine (except it failed to record one Olympics program
today, the old "recorder failed" problem), but I'm pretty sure it used to
show the number of the tuner it planned on using for that recording. So
what does "#" mean?

J.Pilk at tesco

Aug 1, 2012, 2:07 AM

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Re: what does "#" mean in the tuner column? [In reply to]

On 01/08/12 04:56, Marco Nelissen wrote:
> When I look at the scheduled recordings screen, it shows "#" in the
> rightmost column, for all recordings.
> It's recording just fine (except it failed to record one Olympics
> program today, the old "recorder failed" problem), but I'm pretty sure
> it used to show the number of the tuner it planned on using for that
> recording. So what does "#" mean?
>

It means the tuner number is greater than 9 - and probably that you
aren't running 0.25. IIRC it wasn't possible to display two-digit
numbers. I don't know why all your tuner numbers are so high. Maybe
you rescanned without deleting them all first?

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ylee at pobox

Aug 1, 2012, 7:51 AM

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Re: what does "#" mean in the tuner column? [In reply to]

John Pilkington <J.Pilk [at] tesco> says:
> It means the tuner number is greater than 9 - and probably that you
> aren't running 0.25. IIRC it wasn't possible to display two-digit
> numbers. I don't know why all your tuner numbers are so high.
> Maybe you rescanned without deleting them all first?

Not Marco, but in my case on 0.24, three HDHomeRun Prime tuners
(which, in 0.24, appear as tuners 1, 3, and 5, with no way to skip 2,
4, and 6) and two HDHomeRun ATSC tuners with multirec (7-10).

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Q: "Record HD cable/satellite?" A: Hauppauge HD-PVR, $200 @ Newegg
Q: "Can't change Live TV channels w/multirec!" A: Hit NEXTCARD key
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J.Pilk at tesco

Aug 1, 2012, 8:44 AM

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Re: what does "#" mean in the tuner column? [In reply to]

On 01/08/12 15:51, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> John Pilkington <J.Pilk [at] tesco> says:
>> It means the tuner number is greater than 9 - and probably that you
>> aren't running 0.25. IIRC it wasn't possible to display two-digit
>> numbers. I don't know why all your tuner numbers are so high.
>> Maybe you rescanned without deleting them all first?
>
> Not Marco, but in my case on 0.24, three HDHomeRun Prime tuners
> (which, in 0.24, appear as tuners 1, 3, and 5, with no way to skip 2,
> 4, and 6) and two HDHomeRun ATSC tuners with multirec (7-10).
>

Fair enough, but Marco said they were /all/ showing the #. My system
status at one point showed over 20 tuners, mostly inaccessible. I think
the problem there was non-matching hostnames, and IIRC there were only
two hardware tuners. Now I see 14; 2 sets of 5, 2 sets of 2 from four
hardware tuners on three hardware DVB-T devices.
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marco.nelissen at gmail

Aug 1, 2012, 3:43 PM

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Re: what does "#" mean in the tuner column? [In reply to]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:44 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk [at] tesco> wrote:

> On 01/08/12 15:51, Yeechang Lee wrote:
>
>> John Pilkington <J.Pilk [at] tesco> says:
>>
>>> It means the tuner number is greater than 9 - and probably that you
>>> aren't running 0.25. IIRC it wasn't possible to display two-digit
>>> numbers. I don't know why all your tuner numbers are so high.
>>> Maybe you rescanned without deleting them all first?
>>>
>>
>> Not Marco, but in my case on 0.24, three HDHomeRun Prime tuners
>> (which, in 0.24, appear as tuners 1, 3, and 5, with no way to skip 2,
>> 4, and 6) and two HDHomeRun ATSC tuners with multirec (7-10).
>>
>>
> Fair enough, but Marco said they were /all/ showing the #. My system
> status at one point showed over 20 tuners, mostly inaccessible. I think
> the problem there was non-matching hostnames, and IIRC there were only two
> hardware tuners. Now I see 14; 2 sets of 5, 2 sets of 2 from four hardware
> tuners on three hardware DVB-T devices.

I recently rebuilt my machine, and at some point I deleted all the tuners
and re-added them. I guess that increased the numbering, since the first
tuner is now #12.

gary.buhrmaster at gmail

Aug 1, 2012, 4:15 PM

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Re: what does "#" mean in the tuner column? [In reply to]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Marco Nelissen
<marco.nelissen [at] gmail> wrote:
...
> I recently rebuilt my machine, and at some point I deleted all the tuners
> and re-added them. I guess that increased the numbering, since the first
> tuner is now #12.

There is a difference between deleting all the cards one at a time,
or selecting 'delete all capture cards on this host', and selecting
'delete all capture cards'. Only the last will reset the auto-increment
cardid back to the start value.

Gary
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ylee at pobox

Aug 1, 2012, 4:32 PM

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Re: what does "#" mean in the tuner column? [In reply to]

Marco Nelissen <marco.nelissen [at] gmail> says:
> I recently rebuilt my machine, and at some point I deleted all the tuners
> and re-added them. I guess that increased the numbering, since the first
> tuner is now #12.

In pre-0.25 you need to delete all tuners, not just on the machine
you're running mythtv-setup on, for the tuner count to reset. I
believe that in 0.25 tuners can be arbitrarily renumbered.

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MythTV FAQ Q: "Cheap frontend/backend?" A: Revo, $200-300 @ Newegg
Q: "Record HD cable/satellite?" A: Hauppauge HD-PVR, $200 @ Newegg
Q: "Can't change Live TV channels w/multirec!" A: Hit NEXTCARD key
More answers @ <URL:http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/>
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marco.nelissen at gmail

Aug 3, 2012, 9:31 PM

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Re: what does "#" mean in the tuner column? [In reply to]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Yeechang Lee <ylee [at] pobox> wrote:

> Marco Nelissen <marco.nelissen [at] gmail> says:
> > I recently rebuilt my machine, and at some point I deleted all the tuners
> > and re-added them. I guess that increased the numbering, since the first
> > tuner is now #12.
>
> In pre-0.25 you need to delete all tuners, not just on the machine
> you're running mythtv-setup on, for the tuner count to reset. I
> believe that in 0.25 tuners can be arbitrarily renumbered.
>

I'm pretty sure I used the "delete all tuners" option to delete them all at
once, and then added them back one at a time. I think I even did it twice,
which is probably why the first tuner is now #13 (not 12 as I said
earlier). I only have a single combined frontend/backend, so the machine I
ran mythtv-setup on is the machine that has the tuners.
In any case, thanks for the explanation everyone, at least now I know it's
just a display issue, and I don't have to worry about it.

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