Mythtv tuners are always "busy" on system restart

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Mythtv tuners are always "busy" on system restart

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Mythtv Version: 33 (via PPA)
OS: Lubuntu 22.04
Tuners: SiliconDust HDHomerun

Whenever I do a full reboot of my system and attempt to record or watch live tv, I get a message stating all tuners are busy. A check of backend status does not show a recording happening

BUT when I manually restart the mythtv backend via systemctl, everything works again. What is going on?

Has anyone experienced this?
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Re: Mythtv tuners are always "busy" on system restart

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Hear it all the time. Look here (for example) and search for hdhomerun_check.py: viewtopic.php?p=26001#p26001
It's only one example. Could be as simple (and ugly) as adding a sleep. Instructions on how to add the script to a backend override file are just
above the script.
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An option for Mythbuntu Control Panel users is to use MCP to enable networking to ensure the network is up before the backend starts.

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@heyted cool. Just looked at the source, you might want to update hdhomerun_check.py to v1.28. Now it writes log
messages to the command line if run from there.
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Got it. Will do.
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