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

Adam Propeck adam at propeck.com
Mon Jan 9 04:34:46 UTC 2006


huh. does this happen to the STB if it's not hooked up via firewire to your
Myth box? I mean, does it lock up occasionally still? I'm new to this STB,
so please bear with my questions.

On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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