[mythtv-users] HDHR and SVN

Jake Palmer jakep_82 at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 5 17:16:29 UTC 2007


>From: Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com>
>
>On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:27:25 Tom Lichti wrote:
> > Willy Boyd wrote:
> > > On 4/5/07, William Munson <william_munson at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > >> You do not need a specific version from svn, you need a version that 
>is
> > >> newer than 12618. If you follow the advise of the other poster and
> > >> change your yum.conf settings, you will download a version which will
> > >> work just fine. Please note that for most people a hdhr will not
> > >> automatically assign the channels it finds with the correct channel 
>in
> > >> the zap2it lineup. You will need to do that manually. There are 
>numerous
> > >> howto and newsgroup postings on how to do that association.
> > >>
> > >> You do not need to compile the latest svn to get support for the hdhr
> > >> however it would not hurt anything if you decided to "roll your own".
> > >> There are also many howto on setting up and using svn.
> > >>
> > >> Good luck,
> > >> William
> > >
> > > If I'm not mistaken, it's the other way around.  The advice concerning
> > > revision 12618 was to use that one (or older), because something that
> > > got checked in after that is causing problems for some people with the
> > > HDHR.  Anything newer has that same issue.  BUT, current results seem
> > > that if you enable "quick tuning" in mythtv-setup for your HDHR, it
> > > seems to resolve the issue.
> > >
> > > I just got my HDHR a few days ago and I'm still going through the 80%
> > > or so channels that the scanner "found" but aren't tunable, and
> > > putting in xmltvid's for the rest.  So I haven't personally
> > > encountered the PMT bug that supposedly 12619+ introduces.
> >
> > That is correct, but may be moot. I had the problem with anything past
> > 12618 not working right, so I reverted to 12618, did the channel scan,
> > fixed all the lineups, and I am now running current SVN with the latest
> > HDHR firmware, with quicktune enabled, and I am not experiencing any
> > problems. I have not tried a channel scan with current SVN, so I can't
> > comment on whether or not that works.
>
>Channel scanning is currently hosed in the release-0-20-fixes branch, which 
>is
>what ATrpms tracks, and that's for both DVB cards and the HDHomeRun. I
>haven't had time to dig into why that is yet (still catching up on list 
>mail
>to see if someone else has). At the very least, I'm positive things worked 
>at
>least as recently as 12782 and 12783, as I'm the one who checked those in
>after testing them with my own HDHomeRun. I've got the day off tomorrow,
>hopefully I'll find some time to get around to tracking down the fix and
>checking it in...
>
>--
>Jarod Wilson
>jarod at wilsonet.com

So the scanning issue is unrelated to the PMT issue in bug 3031?

Jake

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