Is it just me or hasn't the setting "Time to record before start of show (in seconds)" worked for many versions of Myth? I had it working in the early versions of KnoppMyth R4 but since R4V5 it hasn't worked for me. It may have worked when I only had one backend, but way back when on R4V5 I added a slave backend/frontend and the setting has never worked since around that time. I'm on R5C7 right now and I've added a third backend/frontend, but it still doesn't work on it either. Don't know if the extra backends have anything to do with it or not, but just mention that. The corresponding setting to record past the end of a show doesn't work either. However, the "Category record over-time" setting right below these two does work.

I've searched several times over the years but have never found anyone else mentioning this not working. And I know this isn't supposed to work when programs are scheduled back-to-back. Mine doesn't work as it should when there's nothing else recording before or after the scheduled recording.

Any ideas on what to check to troubleshoot this?

Thanks.

Steve

Working for me... I've got both a general setting to start 60 seconds early and end 60 seconds late (which can be overriden if necessary because of the schedule and the hardware resources) and a per schedule 1 minute early and late on anything I want to keep, and both get applied... Such recordings typically start 2 minutes early and end 2 minutes late as a result. On channels that are really bad about schedule drift (like Cartoon Network) I double that, and as you'd expect they start 3 minutes early and end 3 minutes late.

Well, I found and fixed this problem a couple weeks ago so I want to post the solution. The hostname for these settings in the settings table was incorrectly listed as one of my slave backends (it should be set to the "NULL" without any quotes). Somehow a couple years ago during an install this must have got changed since it use to work (maybe prior to my first slave unit).

For archival purposes, I'll spell out what I did to fix the problem:

From the master backend with a hostname of mythtv1 (the password when prompted is mythtv):
mysql -u mythtv -p
use mythconverg
show columns from settings;
select * from settings where (value = "RecordPreRoll");
select * from settings where (value = "RecordOverTime");
UPDATE settings SET hostname = NULL
WHERE value = "RecordPreRoll";
UPDATE settings SET hostname = NULL
WHERE value = "RecordOverTime";
quit