all digital tuners lost when upgrading from V6 [RESOLVED]

[drewg]

I just upgraded to the latest beta (V7.0.18.1) from 6.6.2 on Linux. All my digital tuners disappeared when I upgraded. This was disconcerting.

I have 3 tuners. Since linux stupidly assigns /dev/dvb/adapter0 to a random tuner, and because I have my tuners attached to different antennas, I needed to distinguish them. I wrote a script that runs before sagetv is started that makes links from /dev/dvb/adapter4 to whichever /dev/dvb/adapter{0..2} is my samsung tuner, /dev/dvb/adapter5 to whichever /dev/dvb/adapter{0..2} is my HD5000, etc.

When I upgraded to V7, the /dev/adapter* aliases I created for SageTV were ignored, and I was given 3 tuners with "pretty" names (what should have been adapter4 became "Digital Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend 0000\:03\:06.2") were available. I attempted to try to "fix" this by restoring a backup, and editing Sage.properties, and renaming my "adapter4" tuner to Digital Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend, but that did not work either.

I eventually re-did my configuration, and things seem to work, but it was very disconcerting.

Drew

[Narflex]

I'm fairly sure the problem was due to your optimization which was renaming the devices. The upgrade process would have re-associated them all correctly automatically, but your fix essentially broke that I think. Other Linux users didn't have this problem, so in general this shouldn't be an issue.

But at least I'm sure you understand why we do this now.

[drewg]

Originally Posted by Narflex

But at least I'm sure you understand why we do this now.

Completely! I wish V6 had done it, so that I wouldn't have had to do my hack. I also appreciated whatever you did that eliminated my optimization from causing "phantom" devices from showing up (since the same tuner is reachable via 2 different /dev/dvb/adapterX paths).

I *think* tuning in V7 is more reliable that V6 (still waiting for my favorites to record tonight to decide . On V6, I'd miss the very first recording on at least one of my tuners every time I restarted sage. On v7, I've only missed one recording so far in about 3 restarts. Of course, that one was one of my wife's shows..

Drew