ChannelsDVR Server just quit - again.
I realized it wasn't recording and manually restarted it .
No errors prior to stopping:
2021/04/25 14:45:26.820961 [SYS] Removing old backup backup-20210328.190230
2021/04/25 22:28:28.258144 [SYS] Starting Channels DVR v2021.03.30.0356 (android-arm64 pid:24661) in /data/data/com.getchannels.dvr/files/channels-dvr/data
Strange...something similar happened to me yesterday.
Same thing happened on my Pi a while ago. If you guys are having this elsewhere, that's interesting.
mine just quit also. it actually also randomly quit on Friday evening too. I found a single broken file in the /streaming/m3u8 folder. deleted that and it rebooted fine again and was working without any issue until about 10 minutes ago.
this is on a pi4 for reference.
Mine is also on a Pi4 using the Channels Pi image (2021.0224.1817). I didn't have the opportunity to dig around the system to see if there are any logs that show what happened. From what I can tell, it had finished a recording and hung up sometime during the commercial skip processing. When I went to watch something later in the day, the Channels app gave me "your DVR is not available" screen. I had to hard restart the Pi a few times before it booted past a twice-flashing green light. Here's the DVR log as an FYI...
2021/04/25 10:31:00.031387 [TNR] Closed connection to 107AF30D/0 for ch3.1 KYW-TV
2021/04/25 10:31:00.075940 [SNR] Statistics for "TV/CBS News Sunday Morning/CBS News Sunday Morning S2021E17 2021-04-25-0859.mpg": ss=67%,58%-72% snq=97%,72%-100% seq=100% bps=13147112,1601760-16923008 pps=1248,152-1607
2021/04/25 10:31:00.091510 [DVR] Finished job 1619355540-19 CBS News Sunday Morning
2021/04/25 10:31:00.165530 [DVR] Processing file-530: TV/CBS News Sunday Morning/CBS News Sunday Morning S2021E17 2021-04-25-0859.mpg
2021/04/25 10:31:00.320478 [DVR] Waiting 4h27m59.679547771s until next job 1619377140-20 NHL Hockey
2021/04/25 10:31:04.605874 [DVR] Running commercial detection on file 530 (TV/CBS News Sunday Morning/CBS News Sunday Morning S2021E17 2021-04-25-0859.mpg)
2021/04/25 15:06:58.389464 [SYS] Starting Channels DVR v2021.04.22.0122 (linux-arm64 pid:305) in /mnt/data/channels-dvr/data
2021/04/25 15:06:58.782203 [SYS] Started HTTP Server
2021/04/25 15:06:58.832975 [SYS] Waiting on dependencies network-online.target time-sync.target
2021/04/25 15:07:03.265955 [SYS] Waiting on dependencies time-sync.target
2021/04/25 15:32:59.234325 [SYS] Done waiting on dependencies
2021/04/25 15:32:59.787855 [HDR] Found 1 devices
2021/04/25 15:33:00.722959 [ERR] Failed to request m3u: Get "http://127.0.0.1:8080/playlist.m3u": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:8080: connect: connection refused
2021/04/25 15:33:07.080753 [DVR] Recording engine started in /media/DVR
2021/04/25 15:33:07.082271 [SYS] Bonjour service running for dvr-server.local. [192.168.1.213]
2021/04/25 15:33:07.259104 [DVR] Starting job 1619377140-20 NHL Hockey on ch=[10.1]
There was an update I think Sunday Night and may have automaticly updated. This happened to me Sunday Night. Had to recycle power to recover. Mine stopped according to logs
my WD MyPassport HDD was popping random errors (that were all quickly resolved when I would disconnect and analyze with my windows pc) so i took the time to switch it out for a samsung 870 evo SSD. it's working perfectly again now and a bit more snappy to move around the menus (might be placebo but i'm gonna ride with it anyway!).
i also created a backup 250gb SSD so that if anything does go haywire i can do a quick swap and be back up un running quickly while i troubleshoot. probably an unnecessary step though.
A Y-USB cable solved my issue with HD power. Should have googled the issue in the first place. $3 dollar cable rectified my issue.
