HDPVR - Recording Cycles On and Off

[jsonnabend]

Next weirdness with the HDPVR. From time to time SageTV can't seem to keep the recording going on the HDPVR.

While watching live tv, the timeline periodically jumps ahead a few seconds. When I go to the serve to see what's happening, I notice the record light doesn't stay lit on the HDPVR. It will stay lit for several seconds, then go off for one or two seconds, then go back on.

I'm using the most current version of SageTV on an XP server, and the most recent HDPVR drivers. It also happened with the 1.0.5.301 drivers.

There are no system messages in SageTV.

Restarting the HDPVR doesn't fix the problem, but restarting the SageTV server does. Anyone have any ideas?

- Jeff

[jsonnabend]

Hmm, no one else seeing this behavior? I guess I'm just the lucky one, huh.

- Jeff

[jerryt]

In the control panel under power select "High performance".

Did you install your motherboard chipset drivers?

Check that the USB ports have power saving disabled.

Reload sage.

I don't have this problem but I am on my second messed up Olympics recording. (HDHomeRun).

[jsonnabend]

Interesting about the Olympics recordings being messed up. I've had more trouble with those programs than any I can remember.

I will check the issues you suggest.

- Jeff

[sleonard]

I see the on/off thing with the recording lights fairly often. I haven't noticed any issue with the actual recording or timeline whether it is live or not though.

It bugs me when this happens because I think its about to have a full-fledged lockup but it seems to always recover and keep recording. I suspect that this causes the recording to end up in multiple files but I haven't been able to verify that. I have yet to see if this is also happening right before the full-fledged lockups. I never seem to be around to observe when those happen.

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[Skirge01]

Have you checked the other threads about what to look for when dealing with the HD-PVR? Electrical interference, cable lengths, poor signal, overheating, shared USB ports, etc...

[jsonnabend]

Sure, I've read every HDPVR related thread on the forum. No one that I saw ever described this problem. The fact that restarting Sage fixes the problem doesn't fill me with joy about Sage.

- Jeff

[Skirge01]

If you've read everything that has been discussed and ensured that you changed/tried everything suggested, then I guess you may have a bad HD-PVR and will need to contact Hauppauge.