[mythtv-users] pcHDTV card red light

[John Patrick Poet]

In the case of the HD-2000 card, red is bad, green is good.

Red means that the card is NOT locked onto a station.  Green means that it
is locked on a station.

When you "configure" Myth, one of the things you setup is the default
channel to tune to.  This should be the NTSC equivalent channel for the ATSC
channel you want to be the default.  Even with this default configured, each
time you start mythbackend, it just seems to tune to whatever channel was
LAST tuned to.  If the card has been tuned to an invalid channel, the
easiest way to get sanity back, is to use dtvsignal to change the channel.

After you start up mythbackend, but before you run mythfrontend, try using
dtvsignal to "change the channel", to something valid.  In this scenario you
want to use the ATSC channel id, not the NTSC id.

e.g.  dtvsignal /dev/dtv 16

If dtvsignal does not show a valid signal strength, then something is either
gone really haywire with the driver, or your antenna is unhooked?

John


On Wed, 14 Apr 2004, Gaelons Gaelons wrote:

> When mythtvbackend starts, the pcHDTV red light comes on immediately.
>
> I am using Red Hat 9 with the latest pcHDTV drivers for RH9 off the website.
>   I can watch HDTV through mplayer and xine.  I am getting great signal
> strength.
>
> I'm using MythTV via CVS and after starting / stopping mythfrontend and
> mythbackend many times, I was able to NOT get a red light a single time and
> was able to watch TV.  Later it locked up and I haven't been able to NOT get
> a red light since.
>
> Can someone give me a "Troubleshooting List" of what kinds of things I
> should be looking at?
>
> Thanks,
> Chad Bradley
>
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