Problems with HD100s after STV update

[rsteele]

Some time last week I got a notification of a new STV update available. I updated my HD100s and since then, they've become quite unreliable.

I see two symptoms:

1. while using it the HD100 gets slower and then eventually the video disappears and then
2. power cycling the HD100 seems to boot normally but then no video when it tries to connect to the SageTV server.

Restarting the SageTV service seems to fix the problem for a while, but it invariably comes back. Interestingly, when this happens it happens to both HD100 units, plus Placeshifter clients, but normal clients seem to be OK.

I think I'm seeing a memory leak in the service: at one point while trying to figure this out I connected with a client and I had a system message to the effect that I had run out of heap space. I've bumped up the max heap to 700MB and this does seem to improve things, but we're still having problems.

Could this have been introduced by the STV update?

I'm running SageTV 6.6.2 on WHS, HD100's with the latest firmware.

Thanks,
Rich

[Opus4]

Are you using the hidden malore menus? If so, try this test STV.

- Andy

[rsteele]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Are you using the hidden malore menus? If so, try this test STV.

- Andy

In fact, yes I am. (Sorry, I meant to include that bit of information.)

I'll try out the patch in that other thread some time this holiday weekend. In the meantime, is it sufficient to just disable malore menus to work around the issue.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by rsteele

I'll try out the patch in that other thread some time this holiday weekend. In the meantime, is it sufficient to just disable malore menus to work around the issue.

Yes, and I'm about to turn that test STV into an STV update that SageTV can download itself.

- Andy

[rsteele]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Yes, and I'm about to turn that test STV into an STV update that SageTV can download itself.

- Andy

I was able to install the STV update on Wednesday (I think) and everything seems to be working smoothly again.

Thanks!

Rich

[Ericft]

I am having the same issues. When I boot HD-100 I can get into the settings menu, alter video/audio inputs, it finds the server but when i connect to it, the tv screen is blank. in the past, i had to just change my video output settings to allow only 1080p via hdmi, however now, even when i cycle through the video resolution options, no images appears. I have tried firmware update, reset to original stx100.bin files and also switched to component and spdif outputs, still no luck. I saw the post about updating the stv but i can't do it because the extender will not even boot into the main menu pages to navigate to setup and so forth. What other suggestion does anyone have? it was all working just fine until i left for the holidays...