[mythtv-users] Difficulty getting HDHomeRun setup

Brian L. Walter blwalter at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 12:29:56 UTC 2007


Bob Diss wrote:
> Hi.  A recent post suggests that channel scanning for
> the HDHomeRun should be just fine in 0.20.1.
> Unfortunately (for me), I seem to have an environment
> where that is not so.
>
> I am running the MythTV suite from the ATrpms.  My
> installed release is tagged 0.20.1-157.fc5, which
> corresponds to svn revision 13460.  I have been
> attempting to setup my newly-acquired HDHR according
> to the instructions as listed in the MythTV wiki.
>
> When I perform the step to scan for channels (with teh
> parameters Full Scan / Cable (or any) / QAM-256 and
> -64) / Period / Delete), the process flashes a status
> dialog quickly by, then ends with a "Scanning" result
> window with nothing in it.  The only log message I see
> from mythtv-setup is the following:
>
> 2007-06-01 22:36:20.597 HDHRChan(10111032/0): device
> found at address 192.168.15.100
>
> I know that my hdhr is up and running because I can
> view programs from it using the Mac "HDHRControl"
> application.
>
> During this setup process I've stopped the fe/be, and
> I've turned off iptables filtering as well (in case
> firewall rules were a problem).
>
> The manual scan, using the hdhomerun_config tool,
> produces lines like the following:
>
> ...
> SCANNING: 639000000 (us-cable:93, us-irc:93)
> LOCK: qam256 (ss=93 snq=100 seq=100)
> PROGRAM: 1: 0.0
> PROGRAM: 2: 0.0
> PROGRAM: 4: 0.0
> PROGRAM: 5: 0.0
> PROGRAM: 6: 0.0
> PROGRAM: 7: 0.0
> PROGRAM: 8: 0.0
> PROGRAM: 9: 0.0 (encrypted)
> ...
>
> Running mythtv-setup with the options "-v
> important,general,channel" gives the following (which
> I've abbreviated, since the channel-scanning section
> is pretty repetative).  In this section I can see what
> looks like a scan on the same frequency, but nothing
> is found:
>
> ...
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.461 HDHRChan(10111032/0): device
> found at address 192.168.15.100
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.464 ChannelBase(8): Input #14:
> 'MPEG2TS' schan() sourceid(3) ccid(8)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.465 ChannelBase(8): Current Input
> #14: 'MPEG2TS'
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.466 HDHRChan(10111032/0):
> Successfully connected to device
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.517 HDHRSM(10111032/0): ctor
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.518 DelAllPID()
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.520 Filter: ''
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.548 SM(10111032/0)::AddFlags:
> Seen() Match() Wait(Sig,)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.558 SM(10111032/0)::AddFlags:
> Seen() Match() Wait(MGT,VCT,NIT,SDT,)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.696 HDHRChan(10111032/0):
> TuneTo(57000000,qpsk)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.762 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.763 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.764 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.764 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.767 HDHRChan(10111032/0):
> TuneTo(63000000,qpsk)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.769 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.770 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.771 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.771 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> end
> ...
> 2007-06-01 22:57:37.344 HDHRChan(10111032/0):
> TuneTo(639000000,qpsk)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:37.345 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:37.345 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:37.345 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:37.346 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> end
> ...
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.696 HDHRChan(10111032/0):
> TuneTo(57000000,qpsk)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.762 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.763 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.764 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.764 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.767 HDHRChan(10111032/0):
> TuneTo(63000000,qpsk)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.769 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.770 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.771 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.771 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.774 HDHRChan(10111032/0):
> TuneTo(69000000,qpsk)
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.776 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.777 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: begin
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.778 SM(10111032/0)::Stop: end
> 2007-06-01 22:57:36.779 HDHRSM(10111032/0): Stop() --
> end
>
> So, what have I done that's preventing this from
> working?  Can someone show me the error in my ways?
>
>   
My *personal* experience has been that HDHR scanning has never worked 
from RPMs.  I've had to use svn-fixes to get it to work...

Brian


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