Hi All,
I've just done my first Myth 0.20 install on a system that has Haupauge PVR 350. I have an S-Video output from a Motorolla Set Top Box going to the s-video input on the PVR350. Recording and playback, live pause, and other live features seem to be working great. I can even take the .mpg file, copy it over to another system and play it - it all works great. I'm using S-video input to the PVR 350 - because otherwise I cannot record some of the "encrypted" channels - the TV tuner cannot tune above like 98 or something.

I have set up a "channel 3" which is just the s-video input and it works in "Watch TV" mode. However, if I create a "Manual" schdeule then the time comes, the status says "recording" under "manage recordings" - however, nothing gets written. Also, if I use MythWeb to check the "Backend Status" the encoder says that it is not in use.

Can anyone give me some trouble-shooting suggestions? I am comfortable working at the command level in unix - are there logs I could check to see what is happening?

Thanks,

Kevin

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- SN25P/Athlon64X2 4800+/CORSAIR System Select 2GB/
- (2) WD Caviar SE16 320GB SATA 3.0G (XP/SUSE Linux)/LITE-ON 16X DVD/
- eVGA Geforce 7900GT CO/(2) ViewSonic VP930b

I found the myth log in /var/log:

2006-12-17 23:15:02.866 TVRec(2): Changing from None to RecordingOnly
2006-12-17 23:15:02.873 TVRec(2): HW Tuner: 2->2
2006-12-17 23:15:02.891 Channel::GetCurrentChannelNum(): Failed to find Channel ''
2006-12-17 23:15:02.892 Channel(/dev/video0)::TuneTo(): Error, failed to find channel.
2006-12-17 23:15:02.893 TVRec(2) Error: Failed to set channel to 3. Reverting to kState_None
2006-12-17 23:15:02.894 TVRec(2): Changing from RecordingOnly to None
2006-12-17 23:15:02.900 Canceled recording (Recorder Failed): Battlestar Galactica - 75 "Sun Dec 17 23:15:00 2006":
channel 1000 on cardid 2, sourceid 2
2006-12-17 23:15:05.917 Error deleting '/video/recordings/1000_20061217231500.mpg': No such file or directory
2006-12-17 23:15:06.659 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-12-17 23:15:06.664 adding: mythtv01 as a client (events: 0)
2006-12-17 23:15:11.929 Reschedule requested for id 0.
2006-12-17 23:15:11.946 Scheduled 10 items in 0.0 = 0.00 match + 0.01 place

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- SN25P/Athlon64X2 4800+/CORSAIR System Select 2GB/
- (2) WD Caviar SE16 320GB SATA 3.0G (XP/SUSE Linux)/LITE-ON 16X DVD/
- eVGA Geforce 7900GT CO/(2) ViewSonic VP930b

is ther a way to change settings remotely using only ssh? editing config file or maybe even a curses style config utility. I have not gotten vnc to work on this box just yet.

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- SN25P/Athlon64X2 4800+/CORSAIR System Select 2GB/
- (2) WD Caviar SE16 320GB SATA 3.0G (XP/SUSE Linux)/LITE-ON 16X DVD/
- eVGA Geforce 7900GT CO/(2) ViewSonic VP930b

I had this exact same problem. What was happening was the irblaster (or my friends wife) was turning off the cable box before a recording. What I ended up doing was using the motorola serial port for changing channels(because it's better than the irblaster), and adding the no power command to the script. Good Luck

http://wiki.knoppmyth.net/index.php?pag ... olaDct2000

Also for VNC - apt-get install tightvncserver. Whenever you need a VNC then just type vncserver in ssh to start the server.