npvr + hdhomerun prime - only using two tuners

[darkcody]

Any idea why npvr is only able to use 2 of the three tuners? All three are listed as devices in npvr settings, all listed as present and enabled with 315 channels.the channel list says each channel has 3 sources. Everything seems like it should work perfectly. And indeed it does, until I need the third tuner. npvr always delivers a "tuner unavailable" message when I try and use a third tuner for anything.

Even stranger, It's not always the same two tuners that get used. I've reordered the priority of the tuners in npvr and it uses whatever two tuners I list first...

I'm using xbmc as a front end to my nextpvr backend, but the same behavior is observed using npvr as the front end. I'm also using three different computers (two running windows 7, and 1 raspberry pi with raspbmc), but the problem isn't device specific.

And finally, I can always use the HDhomerun config gui to directly view the unused tuner, and that works fine.

[sub]

I'm not aware of any problem that would cause it to only use 2 of 3 tuners. Can you schedule three recordings for the same time, then post the nrecord.log?

[johnsonx42]

isn't there a setting in the HDHomerun config called "dynamic tuner allocation" which causes problems like this if it's enabled?

[darkcody]

Recordings have been scheduled - I can post the log shortly.

jphnsonx42 - Do you know where I'd find this setting? I'll try disabling it (if it's on)

[darkcody]

here's my nrecord.log

I tried disabling dynamic tuner allocation as well, but that didn't work for me

[sub]

It looks like it actually attempted to start a recording on all three tuners, but for some unknown reason it got a weird database error when starting the 3rd one. It doesn't really make sense why you'd get that.

I'd normally offer to provide you a patch with more logging, to help narrow down the cause, but unfortunately my build has moved on to .NET 4, and is no longer compatible with 2.6.2, so you may end up having to wait until the next release until we can take a closer look.