I have 11 tuners through 5 tuner devices, 4 of which are 2-tuner OTA and one is 3-tuner cable Prime. DVR is MBP15, early 2008 and clients are ATV 4K. Tuners are set for OTA has highest priority and Prime as lowest priority. That way shows that I schedule to record should record on OTA tuners if available OTA, but if it is a cable-only show, then it will record on the Prime tuner. I have found that despite this setup, the DVR is using cable/Prime tuners as first priority. I figured this out by observing the three lights on my Prime tuner. When a show started recording that should have been OTA, I noticed that one of the Prime tuner LEDs became illuminated.
See images below: (1) DVR screenshot of tuner priority (ATV settings also match this). (2) The Big Bang Theory is available on channels 1002, 702, and 2.1. 1002 and 702 are cable.
I then opened the ATV Channels app on the ATV and it showed (3) the show is scheduled to record on channel 1002.
Are my tuner priorities set correctly?
The list of channels shown is all the possible channels to try. When recording time comes, it should go through the tuners in order and try them.
Can you check http://127.0.0.1:8089/log?n=5000 and find a recording that happened to see if it tried the other channels first or not?
Here is the log for that Big Bang Theory recording in the screenshots above. Iāll look through the log for other recordings to see if they tried other channels. Note that I have my recordings set to begin a minute early and end 3 minutes late.
2018/02/03 18:59:00 [DVR] Starting job 1517713140-4 The Big Bang Theory on ch=[1002 702 2.1]
2018/02/03 18:59:00 [DVR] Waiting 29m59.925119818s until next job 1517714940-4 The Big Bang Theory
2018/02/03 18:59:00 [TNR] Opened connection to 131A649E for ch1002
2018/02/03 18:59:07 [DVR] Recording for job 1517713140-4 from 131A649E ch1002 into āTV/The Big Bang Theory/The Big Bang Theory S03E03 2009-10-05 The Gothowitz Deviation 2018-02-03-1859.mpgā for 33m59.92502271s
All of the logs look similar, with the exception of the line that I put in bold below, which looks like it occurs a few times.
2018/01/31 20:29:00 [DVR] Starting job 1517459340-6 Last Man Standing on ch=[1020 713 20.1]
2018/01/31 20:29:00 [DVR] Waiting 29m59.974151317s until next job 1517461140-11 Modern Family
2018/01/31 20:29:00 [TNR] Sharing existing connection to 131A649E for ch1020 (clients=2, len=0)
2018/01/31 20:29:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1517459340-6 from 131A649E ch1020 into āTV/Last Man Standing/Last Man Standing S04E15 2015-02-06 Big Brother 2018-01-31-2029.mpgā for 33m59.974047608s
2018/01/31 20:33:00 [DVR] Finished job 1517457540-6 Last Man Standing
Thanks for the Log. Let me investigate furtherā¦
I seeā¦ you have duals so the channels are not being recognized as HD. The DVR prefers to record from HD channels so your prime is being used.
Click on the ā97 channelsā link and mark the channels as HD.
That makes sense. Iāll try it and let you know. Thanks
I set all of the appropriate OTA channels to HD (if they were HD), then rebooted the MBP computer that hosts the DVR. This HD setting and reboot took place at approx 2am - I assume it takes a while for changes to flow through.
Appox 17 hours later, checking both my Macbook Pro DVR's Schedule section and also my ATV DVR schedule, it looks like the change did not work, BUT checking the log and my Prime tuner, it appears to have been successful. See log below. Also, at 7:05pm, the Prime tuner did not show any LEDs, hence no active cable tuners.
NOTE that the ATV display is in error - the program was not recording on channel 1002, but rather 2.1 (see log). I rebooted my ATV before taking that screenshot to make sure I didn't have residual data floating around in the Channels app on the ATV.
2018/02/05 18:59:00 [DVR] Starting job 1517885940-4 The Big Bang Theory on ch=[1002 702 2.1]
2018/02/05 18:59:00 [DVR] Waiting 29m59.979849107s until next job 1517887740-4 The Big Bang Theory
2018/02/05 18:59:00 [TNR] Opened connection to 1033264E for ch2.1
2018/02/05 18:59:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1517885940-4 from 1033264E ch2.1 into "TV/The Big Bang Theory/The Big Bang Theory S02E01 2008-09-22 The Bad Fish Paradigm 2018-02-05-1859.mpg" for 33m59.979778355s
Here is so more log data. There was one OTA tuner in use at the time, so the tuner priority seems correct. I think the British Baking Show was put on cable because the corresponding OTA channels are not marked as HD.
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [DVR] Starting job 1517975940-6 Last Man Standing on ch=[1020 713 20.1]
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [TNR] Opened connection to 1033264E for ch20.1
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [DVR] Starting job 1517975940-15 The Middle on ch=[7.1]
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 7.1 via 1033264E: unable to lock tuner: ERROR: resource locked by 172.24.1.217 (0)
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [TNR] Opened connection to 103528EF for ch7.1
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [DVR] Starting job 1517975940-34 Ellen's Game of Games on ch=[1011 703 11.1]
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [DVR] Waiting 29m59.928818011s until next job 1517977740-6 Last Man Standing
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1517975940-6 from 1033264E ch20.1 into "TV/Last Man Standing/Last Man Standing S06E16 2017-02-03 The Force 2018-02-06-1959.mpg" for 33m59.985380054s
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1517975940-15 from 103528EF ch7.1 into "TV/The Middle/The Middle S09E14 2018-02-06 Guess Whos Coming to Frozen Dinner 2018-02-06-1959.mpg" for 33m59.966206427s
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 11.1 via 1033264E: unable to lock tuner: ERROR: resource locked by 172.24.1.217 (0)
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [ERR] Failed to start stream on channel 11.1 via 103528EF: unable to lock tuner: ERROR: resource locked by 172.24.1.239 (0)
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [TNR] Opened connection to 1033D8A3 for ch11.1
2018/02/06 19:59:00 [DVR] Recording for job 1517975940-34 from 1033D8A3 ch11.1 into "TV/Ellen's Game of Games/Ellen's Game of Games S01E08 2018-02-06 I See Dizzy People 2018-02-06-1959.mpg" for 1h3m59.92796141s
