[mythtv-users] Getting SA3250HD firewire to work with mythtv....

Nathan A. Smith nasa01 at comcast.net
Sat Jan 13 17:30:49 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 11:03 -0500, nik gibson wrote:
> Change to a channel that you know works and doesn't have any 5c
> encryption using the 3250 change channel script.  Next you will need
> to painstakingly figure out which channels are good and which ones
> your cable provider encrypts.  I can forward you a hack of a Perl
> script that I wrote; it goes through all the channels and prints a
> list of good/bad channel id's.
> The caveat is when you hit an encrypted channel it hoses your firewire
> connection and you have to reset it or sometimes even reboot; there's
> plenty of threads talking about it on this list. Due to the constant
> resets my script takes 10+ hours to run...  Firewire can be pain but
> I've had mine working perfectly now for about 3 months; I hope it
> continues to go smooth :)
> 
> -Nik-
Nik,

Thanks for the info....  And yes I would love to see your perl script.  

BTW: how do you tell if a station has 5c encryption or not?

> 
> On 1/11/07, Nathan A. Smith <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have the forementioned cable box I would like to work with my SVN
> > version of mythtv.
> >
> > I have followed the howto from here:
> >
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire
> >
> > and tried the primer from here:
> >
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Firewire_Priming
> >
> > with no avail.
> >
> > Plugreport returns the following:
> >
> > [root at mythtv mythtv]# plugreport
> > Host Adapter 0
> > ==============
> >
> > Node 0 GUID 0x000f21bcab700000
> > ------------------------------
> > oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
> > oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=2
> >         channel=0, data_rate=1, overhead_id=0, payload=146
> > iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2
> >
> > Node 1 GUID 0x0010dc0001021848
> > ------------------------------
> > libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
> > libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR
> >
> >
> > firewire_tester returns this:
> >
> > [root at mythtv mythtv]# firewire_tester -p -n 0 -r 5 -v
> > raw1394: Allocating handle, port 0.
> > Action: Test P2P connection 5 times, node 0, channel 0
> > P2P: Creating, node 0, channel 0
> > P2P: Testing...Failed
> > P2P: Disconnecting.
> > P2P: Creating, node 0, channel 0
> > P2P: Testing...Failed
> > P2P: Disconnecting.
> > P2P: Creating, node 0, channel 0
> > P2P: Testing...Failed
> > P2P: Disconnecting.
> > P2P: Creating, node 0, channel 0
> > P2P: Testing...Failed
> > P2P: Disconnecting.
> > P2P: Creating, node 0, channel 0
> > P2P: Testing...Failed
> > P2P: Disconnecting.
> > raw1394: Releasing handle.
> >
> >
> > What may I be missing?
> >
> >
> > Nasa
> >
> >
> > BTW: system is a dual-core athlon 3800 based machine.  I am using
> > Mandriva 2007 as the OS. And all the modules from the howto are loaded,
> > except the eth1394 which was causing me some network issues.
> >
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