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Thanks for the speedy reply. Here are a few replies to your reply: 1. Yes, to power off (sleep, actually) the frontend. Many TVs will simply rely on the presence or lack thereof of a video signal and automatically go into sleep mode, so perhaps it's not always necessary to control the TV as well, th...

Hi @brichards42, Please don't take these as a strong criticism. I'm happy to see a maker trying to come up with a product for all us Mythizens, and I hope you have luck selling your remotes. But there are several reasons I wouldn't consider it: 1. Unless I missed it, there's no Power button. 2.The b...

You might try running something to "ping" the HDHR in a cron job, and see if that fails. Possibly even something as simple as this would suffice: hdhomerun_config discover > /dev/null || mailx -s "HDHR Failed" your_email@whatever.com This assumes that hdhomerun_config returns a zero status code if n...

I have never run into a case where the enclosure caused a drive to spin-down due to inactivity. Usually this is due to a setting in the drive, itself. You can check if that's the case here with: hdparm -C /dev/sdX (where X is the appropriate drive letter.) If it is in standby mode, you should be abl...

Two possibilities:

1. This could be caused by your bit rate settings, in Recording Profiles.
2. Or, less likely, it might be due to the bug described under the heading Over-saturation and Color Solution, here: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HD-PVR .

While it is possible to combine the signals from multiple antennas, it's not always optimal to do so. You might consider using a box like the HDHomeRun, which has multiple over-the-air tuners. That way you can have one tuner for each antenna. Of course, this does mean running two cables down from th...

I think this script https://github.com/Gribnif/MythPause I wrote may also help.

Here's the PM link for this forum: ucp.php?i=ucp_pm&mode=compose

I have been using it on CentOS for several years, but have not yet upgraded to 8 (I'm still using 7). They have been doing a pretty good job of keeping backward-compatibility lately, so it might be as easy as just upgrading. If you run into problems, post here and I'll try to help.

Last I checked, mythtranscode is pretty much unsupported for actual transcoding. IIRC, it only supports MPEG2, and nothing newer.

I believe some folks do still use it to pipe the data, with commercial cutlists, to other programs to do the actual transcoding.

1) Seagate BarraCuda 4TB Internal Hard Drive HDD - 3.5 Inch Sata 6 Gb/s 5400 RPM 256MB Cache for Computer Desktop PC. 2) Seagate IronWolf 4TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 5900 RPM 64MB Cache for RAID Network Attached Storage. I was leaning towards the IronWolf as it may last lo...

5. To start binge watching, go to any series and press the Menu key. Then select Add to Playlist. When you're ready to start playing, again use the Menu to play the playlist. All the episodes will play in the order they appear in the list. See https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Watch_Recordings#Recording_P...

To expand on what bill6502 said, if you want a particular column to be searched in a case-insensitive way, change it to a case-insensitive collation. These end in "_ci", like "latin1_general_ci" and "utf8_general_ci".

I ran my backend on an Atom-based motherboard for a while. It worked well for most things, however it was only SATA 2. Recording too many streams at once would cause timeouts. Even doing a "check" of my RAID array would be dramatically slow--not because of the CPU, but because of the relatively slow...

This happens to me every month or two, as well. Simply restarting the backend is enough to get it running again.