[mythtv-users] An idea for one of the firewire problems

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 03:46:18 UTC 2006


On Sunday 08 January 2006 21:20, Adam Propeck wrote:
> On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Gentlemen, I posted this to the dev list, but haven't gotten a response,
> > I feel it might have been "lost" in the thread to the uninterested.
> >
> > I'm hoping its a trivial thing to do, I'm just not equiped to do such a
> > change
> > and am hoping one of you might be able to whip something together in a
> > few minutes for me to test.
> >
> > One of the issues I'm tracking as part of my firewire "project" is why
> > the DCT62xx series misses recordings sometimes. Now that I finally got my
> > DCT62xx
> > capturing via firewire (added a second cablebox), I think I may have
> > found a
> > way around the problem. Most people said they had to unplug the cable
> > from the box and plug it back in to "reset" it, which is something I
> > found as well. Jeremy suggested I use gscanbus to reset the bus instead,
> > wonderfuly,
> > his suggestion was spot on allowing me to not have to crawl behind my
> > home theatre equipment anymore. I've "tested" this method of fixing quite
> > a few times as I find the connection gets lost at least once a day, and
> > usually everytime no signal is collected from the box for ~2hrs.
> >
> > I was wondering if one of you could whip together a patch that
> > will force a reset on the Host(Port)/Node that the firewire connection is
> > on
> > before every recording and every entry into LiveTV?
> >
> > This may also help channel changes, so perhaps placing the bus reset
> > before
> > Myth changes the channel would be a good place for this step to go.
> >
> > Thanks for your time,
> > Steve
>
> Who is the cable provider you're using? I haven't noticed this with Charter
> really. Granted I just got mine setup recently.
>

Comcast, if its not an issue for all providors/boxes, it can be an option in 
mythtv-setup. I just would like to see if it does fix the problem.

-- 
Steve


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