Unable to tune to channel (again, more research now)

Let me know if I can help contribute logs to this… In the past few releases (Beta Channel) I’ve seen similar behavior, where it would appear that the shows were recording, including showing up in the activity drop-down, and a recording would progress (in the circle indicator) all around then be stuck “spinning” - this would happen to several shows at a time, and after a day or two there would be 10-20 shows ‘stuck spinning’ in the activity drop-down… my temporary work-around has been to add crontab entry to restart PMS at 4:30am every day:

30 4 * * * /usr/sbin/service plexmediaserver restart

plex-activity-normal

Update: My tuners are (2) SD HDHomeRun Connects, and (1) SD HDHomeRunt Connect Quatro – for a total of 8 tuners. Since there isn’t a way yet in Plex to setup all these DVRs to pull in the local OTA Guide and merge it with the SD HDHomeRun Premium Guide, I’ve just got all 3 devices set to use the Premium TV Guide. So the issue wouldn’t appear to be not having enough tuners, nor specific to a single manufacture (e.g. hauppauge), assuming I’m seeing the same bug?

Update 2: Current version of PMS is 1.14.1.5488 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS w/ the latest apt-get update & apt-get upgrade run… all 3 tuner devices have the latest 20180817 firmware from SiliconDust…

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