Need help, No Signal

[mikejaner]

I am at my limits of what I know to do.

I have been running Sagetv on Ubuntu Server 16.04 for about a year now, and it has been running perfectly. I installed using the guides/script provided by SageWizdom, and it has been running perfectly with my HDHR Primes. All of the sudden last week or so, we started getting the "No Signal" message. I thought it was my Samba mappings, but they are seen by SageTV, and I can watch recordings with no problem. I then tried looking at my HDHR's, so I loaded the HDHomerun App, and found that the signal is good, and I can tune any channel. I then proceeded to build a new SageTV VM, so I followed the guides once again, and got it all the way installed, and ran through the SageTV configuration, only to get to a "No Signal" again.
I am perplexed at this point and don't know what to look at to find out why both my "Current" server, and "New" Server both say No Signal.
Any help out there this weekend?

[EnterNoEscape]

I presume because you used that script that you are using OpenDCT. You could try this at a terminal:

sudo systemctl restart opendct

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

I presume because you used that script that you are using OpenDCT. You could try this at a terminal:

sudo systemctl restart opendct

command not found

Wouldn't a restart, which I have done multiple times, resolve what this command would have done?

Thanks for your time,
Mike

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

command not found

Wouldn't a restart, which I have done multiple times, resolve what this command would have done?

Thanks for your time,
Mike

I don't think I read that you rebooted, so the suggestion was to use the systemd commands to restart the service. The fact that you're seeing command not found is very unexpected. I thought systemctl was a given in 16.04. That would make me think the OpenDCT service might not even be running. SageTV might be running because it's using starting a different way.

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

I don't think I read that you rebooted, so the suggestion was to use the systemd commands to restart the service. The fact that you're seeing command not found is very unexpected. I thought systemctl was a given in 16.04. That would make me think the OpenDCT service might not even be running. SageTV might be running because it's using starting a different way.

Ahh. I did type service sagetv restart, and service opendct the restart at the appropriate times. It seemed to like to take those commands.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

Ahh. I did type service sagetv restart, and service opendct the restart at the appropriate times. It seemed to like to take those commands.

Try disabling the Ubuntu firewall temporarily.

sudo ufw disable

[mikejaner]

That didn't change anything, on both the existing SageTV server, and the new one I built this week.

Funny thing. I fired up a new install on my windows server, where I actually store my recordings, and the latest opendct for windows, and it works fine. But I still want either my existing Ubuntu, or the new one to work.

[EnterNoEscape]

At this point, I would recommend trying to tune in a channel that shows No Signal, then posting the logs from SageTV and OpenDCT.

/opt/sagetv/server/sagetv_0.txt
/var/log/opendct/opendct.log

Hopefully something will jump out in the logs.

[mikejaner]

EDIT:
Nevermind what I posted below. I got it working. After looking at the logs of OpenDCT, and seeing the times did not match, I did service opendct start, and now tuning works on the new VM. Why it doesn't automatically start with the system I don't know, but I will figure that out. As for the Old Ubuntu VM I was using, I don't know what changed, but it's about time to refresh and have a newer version anyways. Anyways, thanks for your help EnterNoEscape!



Now with the newly build VM, I get no tuners available after setting up only one tuner, which is not in use as far as I can tell. What's funny is the OpenDCT log seems off by an hour and a half...

Here's the logs:

SageTV:

Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] Seeker awoken
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] MemStats: Used=260MB Total=805MB Max=805MB
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] Checking video directories for new files
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] Diskspace checking is running
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] Verifying existence of all TV media files in database fixDurs=false avoidArchive=true
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] Enforcing keep at most limits for the files...
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] DONE enforcing keep at most limits for the files.
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] Seeker clearing unwanted and partial files...
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] DONE clearing unwanted and partial files.
Mon 7/3 9:02:09.996 [Seeker@5640e97b] Seeker waiting for 153722842296130 mins.
Mon 7/3 9:02:36.323 [PooledThread@1ccd6343] Seeker.finishWatch(/192.168.11.55:54168@@SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI)
Mon 7/3 9:02:36.340 [PooledThread@1ccd6343] Called Seeker.requestWatch(A[609936,591299,"Today's Take",19578@0703.09:00,60,T]) hostname=/192.168.11.55:541$
Mon 7/3 9:02:36.341 [PooledThread@1ccd6343] findBestEncoderForNow(A[609936,591299,"Today's Take",19578@0703.09:00,60,T] record=false host=/192.168.11.55:$
Mon 7/3 9:02:36.341 [PooledThread@1ccd6343] requestWatch can't find an encoder to use
Mon 7/3 9:02:47.945 [PooledThread@1ccd6343] Seeker.finishWatch(/192.168.11.55:54168@@SAGETV_PROCESS_LOCAL_UI)
Mon 7/3 9:02:47.964 [PooledThread@1ccd6343] Called Seeker.requestWatch(A[616809,600339,"Street Outlaws",56905@0703.09:00,60,T]) hostname=/192.168.11.55:5$
Mon 7/3 9:02:47.964 [PooledThread@1ccd6343] findBestEncoderForNow(A[616809,600339,"Street Outlaws",56905@0703.09:00,60,T] record=false host=/192.168.11.5$
Mon 7/3 9:02:47.964 [PooledThread@1ccd6343] requestWatch can't find an encoder to use




OpenDCT:
10:30:01.230 [SageTVManagerShutdown] INFO SageTVManager - The capture device 'DCT-HDHomeRun Prime Tuner 131023CB-2' is being unloaded.
10:30:01.230 [SageTVManagerShutdown] INFO HDHRNativeCaptureDevice - Capture device is now locked.
10:30:01.230 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG RTPCaptureDeviceServices - Producer was not running.
10:30:01.230 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG HDHomeRunControl - key: '/tuner2/lockkey' value: 'null' lockKey: '0' sendLength: 26 address: 192.168.11.193
10:30:02.232 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG HDHomeRunControl - key: '/tuner2/target' value: 'none' lockKey: '0' sendLength: 32 address: 192.168.11.193
10:30:02.238 [SageTVManagerShutdown] INFO SageTVManager - The capture device 'DCT-HDHomeRun Prime Tuner 131023CB-1' is being unloaded.
10:30:02.239 [SageTVManagerShutdown] INFO HDHRNativeCaptureDevice - Capture device is now locked.
10:30:02.239 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG RTPCaptureDeviceServices - Producer was not running.
10:30:02.239 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG HDHomeRunControl - key: '/tuner1/lockkey' value: 'null' lockKey: '0' sendLength: 26 address: 192.168.11.193
10:30:03.241 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG HDHomeRunControl - key: '/tuner1/target' value: 'none' lockKey: '0' sendLength: 32 address: 192.168.11.193
10:30:03.242 [SageTVManagerShutdown] INFO SageTVManager - The capture device 'DCT-HDHomeRun Prime Tuner 131F0F55-0' is being unloaded.
10:30:03.242 [SageTVManagerShutdown] INFO HDHRNativeCaptureDevice - Capture device is now locked.
10:30:03.242 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG RTPCaptureDeviceServices - Producer was not running.
10:30:03.242 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG HDHomeRunControl - key: '/tuner0/lockkey' value: 'null' lockKey: '0' sendLength: 26 address: 192.168.11.194
10:30:04.244 [SageTVManagerShutdown] DEBUG HDHomeRunControl - key: '/tuner0/target' value: 'none' lockKey: '0' sendLength: 32 address: 192.168.11.194

[mikejaner]

OK, I need to reopen this. I came home tonight after SageTV working all morning, to a lockup of the interface and the No Signal message again. Although I rebooted and it came back, obviously this is a no go for WAF.

I captured the logs for around the time which is at 22:48-23:12 timeframe.
Can anybody tell me what happened?

[EnterNoEscape]

If you're not running at least 0.5.28, please upgrade. There was a problem with a few versions prior that would deadlock when using the SageTV media server and a channel with copy protection was streamed that was fixed in the most recent version. What I'm seeing if your logs looks like that is the situation.

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

If you're not running at least 0.5.28, please upgrade. There was a problem with a few versions prior that would deadlock when using the SageTV media server and a channel with copy protection was streamed that was fixed in the most recent version. What I'm seeing if your logs looks like that is the situation.

I see this in the config file:
version.program=0.5.7

At first I thought the channel I first tried to play, Animal Planet, was copy protected, when the server locked up. After I restarted, that was the first channel I tried, and it worked fine. As a matter of fact, I left it playing all night with no issues yet.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

I see this in the config file:
version.program=0.5.7

At first I thought the channel I first tried to play, Animal Planet, was copy protected, when the server locked up. After I restarted, that was the first channel I tried, and it worked fine. As a matter of fact, I left it playing all night with no issues yet.

Please upgrade to the latest and see if you still have this problem.

[mikejaner]

Will do. Gotta distract the wife and kids long enough to reset it to avoid the

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

Please upgrade to the latest and see if you still have this problem.

Upgraded to 0.5.28, and all seems to be well.
Thanks again!!

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

Upgraded to 0.5.28, and all seems to be well.
Thanks again!!

No problem. There were a few versions of 0.5 that were a little wonky when it came to using the SageTV media server which I can see you are doing. I definitely recommend leaving it enabled.