HDHomeRun and 'No Signal' issues

[phelme]

So I made the switch to the BDA driver implementation on my HDHomeRun after using the network encoder version successfully for over a year. I'm hoping with this switch the timeline issues will be resolved. I have to admit I don't like the Remap style of channel mapping the BDA-way uses and prefer the direct channel/sub-channel method of the old way. It seems overly complicated and the 68 channel limit silly. But that's besides the point.

Now what I'm seeing is the occasional "No Signal" problem when selecting a channel. Sigh. So far, it ONLY has happened when I'm manually selecting a channel from the program guide and has not happened for a scheduled recording, but of course I fear this will happen. Usually, when I select the channel again it's fine. I'm not sure if the issue is Sage, the multiple levels of BDA drivers or what. I notice that the HDHomeRun has been correctly tuned (via the HDHR Manager) and an mpg file has been started, but it just gets "stuck" at that point. I'm hoping it's just a "watching live" tuning issue.

Has anyone else experienced this and found a solution? I'm running the latest SageTV, 6.3.10, and the early March HDHR release. Thanks!

[kevine]

I have not had this happen but I have a few suggestions.

First, make sure Sage is completely shutdown before you install, install again, reboot, run a channel scan in HDHR setup FIRST and then search for your channels in Sage. Try again and try from VLC to see if there is a difference.

Post your problem on the Silicondust forum too. They respond to requests quite quickly.

[phelme]

Originally Posted by kevine

I have not had this happen but I have a few suggestions.

First, make sure Sage is completely shutdown before you install, install again, reboot, run a channel scan in HDHR setup FIRST and then search for your channels in Sage. Try again and try from VLC to see if there is a difference.

yes, that's exactly what I did when I upgraded to BDA. I'm guessing it's a Sage issue since someone on the Linux forum has now seen a similar thing. Only difference is his recordings continue, mine don't and I have an empty .mpg file.

I spent the last half hour trying to get it to fail while having the debug log enabled. Of course it didn't. One change I did make is to enforce recording to different drives depending on which HDHR tuner is used. I forgot to put that back after the BDA upgrade. Maybe that fixed it.

[gplasky]

Make sure you're NOT running a channel scan inside of Sage. You should just physically remap the channel number in Sage with the first remap number obtained form the HDHR channel scan.

Gerry

[kevine]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Make sure you're NOT running a channel scan inside of Sage. You should just physically remap the channel number in Sage with the first remap number obtained form the HDHR channel scan.

Gerry

My bad. Gerry's right if you are using cable. Don't scan in Sage unless you have OTA. That's what the instructions say anyway.

[phelme]

Originally Posted by gplasky

Make sure you're NOT running a channel scan inside of Sage. You should just physically remap the channel number in Sage with the first remap number obtained form the HDHR channel scan.

Gerry

Never ran the scan under Sage; just did the manual remap.

it's working for the time being.

[Zervun]

I'm having this exact same problem (linux) and it's driving me nuts

I have a hdhomerun, and it seems to record fine, but if I try and watch a recording while it's recording, or sometimes if there are two recordings going, it completely bugs out, usually resulting in no signals, or just blank

I can see that it's still recording, but there is no output on the screen.

I then have to reboot hdhomerun, sage, and my media extender to get it back and working.