HDHomeRun Prime - Preventing Tuner-Induced Halts in Recording or Lost Recordings

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by Bob F

I have been having infrequent "Halt detected in recording" failures once in every month or less for some time. I discovered some time ago that stopping and restarting the SageTV OpenDCT service immediately corrects the problem. It just happened again, and after resetting it again, I checked the properties for that service and discovered the "Recovery" tab which offers actions that can be taken after failures. I set it to reset the service after multiple failures, hoping that this will solve the problem. We will see.

I would appreciate opinions on whether this was a good decision or if you see a better solution.

Using HDHR Prime tuner with SageTV

Just to clarify, it looks like you are running on a Windows OS, correct? Not that I can help; my server runs on Unraid, but maybe someone else running OpenDCT on Windows can provide some guidance.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by Bob F

I have been having infrequent "Halt detected in recording" failures once in every month or less for some time. I discovered some time ago that stopping and restarting the SageTV OpenDCT service immediately corrects the problem. It just happened again, and after resetting it again, I checked the properties for that service and discovered the "Recovery" tab which offers actions that can be taken after failures. I set it to reset the service after multiple failures, hoping that this will solve the problem. We will see.

I would appreciate opinions on whether this was a good decision or if you see a better solution.

Using HDHR Prime tuner with SageTV

I would check the OPENDCT properties and make sure there are no extra characters in there.

[Bob F]

Originally Posted by KeithAbbott

Just to clarify, it looks like you are running on a Windows OS, correct? Not that I can help; my server runs on Unraid, but maybe someone else running OpenDCT on Windows can provide some guidance.

Correct. Windows 7

[Bob F]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I would check the OPENDCT properties and make sure there are no extra characters in there.

What sort of characters would that be, and min what parameter?

It works perfectly most of the time, but once in several weeks I go to watch a show and it has no data. Stopping and starting OpenDCT is all it takes to get it going again.