[mythtv-users] Re: One tuner on PVR-500 (was Re: PVR-500 configuration)

[Scot L. Harris]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 11:10, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:31:47AM -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > I think I am seeing the exact same problem.  I just tried to manually
> > adjust the brightness setting on the second tuner on the PVR-500.
> > 
> > [root at terraslave ~]# ivtvctl -d /dev/video2 --set-ctrl=brightness=128
> 
> I just tried this command (changing /dev/video2 to /dev/video1) and
> got the following logged in syslog:
> 
> Sep 16 10:04:08 myth kernel: ivtv warning: i2c client addr: 0x44 not
> found for command 0x80446468!
> Sep 16 10:04:08 myth kernel: ivtv warning: i2c client addr: 0x44 not
> found for command 0x400e6407!
> 

I am seeing the same error message in /var/log/messages.

Looks like the same problem.

> > Is there a bad batch of PVR-500's being shipped?
> 
> If so, I hope they've all either gone out or been recalled by now,
> because it would suck to get a replacement and find that it's broken
> in the same way.

Agreed.

I sent a message to the Hauppauge tech support group asking about this.

Now I need to decide if I send this back to newegg.com or to Hauppauge.