[mythtv-users] Fire wire problems with SA3250

Sat May 5 18:23:28 UTC 2007

Hello all,

I'm a two week old Mythtv noobie but I've learned a lot in these two weeks
with playing around with Mythtv. I have everything (so far) working except
getting Mythtv to grab video (and hopefully change the channels) over fire
wire to a SA3250 (digital cable). I've had to rebuild my machine about 3 or
4 times since I started and now I have a solid grasp on what I'm doing.
Problem is that now getting no packets from the SA3250! In the past I was
able to run firewire_test over a peer to peer setup and I was getting a very
reliable connection (but no video) from the SA3250. Now I'm getting
absolutely nothing and I'm beginning to wonder if I'm going to be able to
get this thing to work.

Here's my myth backend log:

2007-05-05 10:58:31     firewire ownership acquired

2007-05-05 10:58:31     priming firewire...

2007-05-05 10:58:31     FAILED! unable to prime firewire

2007-05-05 11:00:05.729 Using runtime prefix = /usr

"2007-05-05 11:00:05.768 New DB connection, total: 1"

2007-05-05 11:00:05.778 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2007-05-05 11:00:05.781 Current Schema Version: 1160

Starting up as the master server.

"2007-05-05 11:00:05.787 New DB connection, total: 2"

2007-05-05 11:00:05.788 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2007-05-05 11:00:05.791 EITHelper: localtime offset -7:00:00 

"2007-05-05 11:00:05.796 New DB connection, total: 3"

2007-05-05 11:00:05.797 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2007-05-05 11:00:05.896 New DB scheduler connection

2007-05-05 11:00:05.897 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2007-05-05 11:00:05.899 Main::Starting HttpServer

2007-05-05 11:00:05.902 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension

2007-05-05 11:00:05.907 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-3 www.mythtv.org

2007-05-05 11:00:05.909 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general

2007-05-05 11:00:05.910 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 138
MiB/min

2007-05-05 11:00:05.911 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 10
min

2007-05-05 11:00:07.907 Reschedule requested for id -1.

2007-05-05 11:00:08.120 Scheduled 0 items in 0.2 = 0.20 match + 0.01 place

2007-05-05 11:00:08.122 Seem to be woken up by USER

2007-05-05 11:05:57     firewire ownership released

2007-05-05 11:07:15     firewire ownership acquired

2007-05-05 11:07:15     priming firewire...

2007-05-05 11:07:15     FAILED! unable to prime firewire

2007-05-05 11:08:49.092 Using runtime prefix = /usr

"2007-05-05 11:08:49.213 New DB connection, total: 1"

2007-05-05 11:08:49.245 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2007-05-05 11:08:49.314 Current Schema Version: 1160

Starting up as the master server.

"2007-05-05 11:08:49.396 New DB connection, total: 2"

2007-05-05 11:08:49.419 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2007-05-05 11:08:49.495 EITHelper: localtime offset -7:00:00 

"2007-05-05 11:08:49.560 New DB connection, total: 3"

2007-05-05 11:08:49.572 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2007-05-05 11:08:49.738 New DB scheduler connection

2007-05-05 11:08:49.962 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
localhost

2007-05-05 11:08:49.974 Main::Starting HttpServer

2007-05-05 11:08:50.116 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension

2007-05-05 11:08:50.157 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-3 www.mythtv.org

2007-05-05 11:08:50.198 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general

2007-05-05 11:08:50.245 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of 138
MiB/min

2007-05-05 11:08:50.427 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 10
min

2007-05-05 11:08:51.984 Reschedule requested for id -1.

2007-05-05 11:08:53.165 Scheduled 0 items in 1.2 = 1.16 match + 0.02 place

2007-05-05 11:08:53.180 Seem to be woken up by USER

2007-05-05 11:09:29.547 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor

2007-05-05 11:09:29.556 adding: Myth as a client (events: 0)

2007-05-05 11:09:29.557 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor

2007-05-05 11:09:29.562 adding: Myth as a client (events: 1)

2007-05-05 11:09:29.578 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback

2007-05-05 11:09:29.592 adding: Myth as a client (events: 0)

2007-05-05 11:09:29.603 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV

2007-05-05 11:09:29.611 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1

libiec61883 warning: Established connection on channel 0.

You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node.

2007-05-05 11:09:30.026 FireRec: Buffered packets 2000 (8000 KB)

2007-05-05 11:09:36.557 TVRec(1): Changing from WatchingLiveTV to None

2007-05-05 11:09:45.030 FireRec: No Input in 15 seconds [P:0 N:0] (select)

"2007-05-05 11:09:45.047 Finished recording Sonic X ""Chaos Control
Freaks"": channel 1011"

"2007-05-05 11:09:45.066 MythSocket(777380:-1): writeStringList: Error,
socket went unconnected."

Plugreport output:

Host Adapter 0  

==============        

Node 0 GUID 0x0016921887920000         

------------------------------      

"oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63"         

"oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=1"   

            "channel=0, data_rate=2, overhead_id=0, payload=146"

"iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2"  

Node 1 GUID 0x0011d800012b3fc4          

------------------------------      

I've also been following the guides listed:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/FireWire

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Firewire_Priming#SA3250HD_Primer

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Firewire

I've tried all of the above priming scripts and nothing is working. The
frustrating thing is that at one point I was getting packets with
firewire_tester -p -n 0 -r 5 but now I'm getting absolutely nothing. I'm
running all of this on Ubuntu 7.04 with the latest version of Mythtv. 

Any help (and I mean ANY) would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

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