MyBlaster: Schedule rec. & ch. changing (2 Viewers)

[Spragleknas]

Specs. not improtant - if se se "My System")

I've been using MCE Replacement to control my STB, but currently it does not support ch. changing for scheduled recording. Does this go for MyBlaster-plugin as well?

This really is a BIG issue. Is this reported to mantis?

 

[joboehl]

Spragleknas,

What TVEngine are you using (or trying to)?

 

[Spragleknas]

I am using the "standard" engine (TVE2).

This is a known bug, and-81 is aware of it. Don't know if it goes for MyBlaster as well.

 

[and-81]

It's a bug in MediaPortal. TVE2.

Only when a scheduled recording is started MediaPortal neglects to update which tuner card to use before sending the Tune External Channel message. This can then lead to the wrong tuner card number being sent along with the GUI_MSG_TUNE_EXTERNAL_CHANNEL. If the tuner card number variable hasn't been initialised yet then it can be -1. Needless to say, this causes a lot of problems when my plugin tries to find the settings for tuner card -1.

We tried to fix this with a patch that was in SVN for a few weeks, but it turned out that the patch caused some other unexpected problems.

There's more information about the problem here:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/tv_server_provides_unexpected_tv_card_number-t19165.html

and here:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1621185&group_id=107397&atid=647927

It does effect the MyBlaster plugin because MyBlaster tries to match a TV card to a blaster port, and when it is given -1 as the card it will just use whatever the last blaster port used was. Of course this will only effect users with two TV cards. Whereas in my plugin it will crash the plugin (though I'm working on fixing that).

I'm going to be putting some effort into finding a solution, but having said that, I thought I'd already found a solution. The patch we put in failed for some unknown reason so I think we need one of the more experienced dev's to have a look at this problem. I don't know if I have a deep enough understanding of the TVE2 to fix this.

Cheers,

 

[Spragleknas]

Wow... as allways and-81: Good and detailed reply!

 

[Spragleknas]

IT WORKS!!!

Running an old version of MCE Replacement and latest SVN. Downside is that the learning function does not (as I said, old version of MCE-R).

Anyway - not gonna update this plugin now!

 

[and-81]

I'm assuming the version of MCE Replacement Plugin is from before I brought in the multiple tuner card changes?

I'm about to upload a "fixed" version of the plugin. But people with multiple STBs of different models may find that it occasionally fails to change channel on the correct STB.

The bug is still in MediaPortal.

The modified copy of my plugin just has some code to handle the bug gracefully.

Cheers,