[mythtv-users] Adding PVR 500 to 350 system

[Todd Houle]

I bought it through our local computer store on campus.  I got it at their
cost of $135.  I help them with troubleshooting, so they let me buy stuff
at cost. It came in quickly - about 2 days after ordering.

Thanks for the info.  I'll drop in the PVR500 and go straight to
mythtv-setup and see what happens.  I should have new ivtv drivers as this
system is only a month old - i'm not home now so can't check. I guess I
look in logs for version numbers?
  Todd

On Thu, October 27, 2005 2:45 pm, Jim Reith said:
> At 02:33 PM 10/27/2005, you wrote:
>>Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a little nervous about
>>breaking this new Myth system now that my wife relies on it so much!
>>I'm hoping to get this done in time to record ER for her tonight...
>>
>>I have a Fedora 4 system built about a month ago using Jarrod's
>>guide and help from this list (thanks everyone!).  It's on a Dell GX
>>140 (1.7GHz) and a PVR350 which is working great.  I just bought a
>>PVR500MCE and am getting ready to put it in when I get home from work
>> today.
>
> You pick it up on buy.com in the recent sale? Mine's on backorder
>
>>What do I do to set this up?  I guess add
>>
>>      alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
>>      alias char-major-81-2 ivtv
>>
>>to my modprobe.conf file.....?   What else do I need to do?
>
> What version of ivtv are you running? You'll need one of the more
> recent ones, 3.8 through 4.0 would be good. If you use 4.0 (the
> latest stable now) you should have everything autodetected.
>
>
>>I see the following in Jarrod's guide- is this relevant to setting
>>up the PVR 500- to tell it to use the tuner for input... Or is it
>>only for testing?
>># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -u 0x3000 -d /dev/video1
>># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -p 4 -d /dev/video1
>># /usr/bin/ivtvctl -f width=720,height=480 /dev/video1
>>
>>Then of course, set it up in mythtv-setup - I think I can handle that...
>>
>>This was setup about a month ago, so I assume somewhat recent...  My
>>cable modem is down this week (thanks comcast) so I can't see what
>>versions I am running from here.
>>
>>Thanks
>>    Todd
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