[mythtv-users] Nova T 500 Lock problem

Henrik Beckman henrik.list at gmail.com
Sat Sep 22 13:51:54 UTC 2007


http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-NOVA-T-500

try the reception patch.

/Henrik

On 9/22/07, Rob <rob at rob7122.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Got my new Nova T last week, dropped it into my bittorrent server along
> with a new hard drive and set to work installing ubuntu, got it
> installed with the following specs
>
> Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l
> Kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
>
> Followed this guide for the Ubuntu/myth install
> http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_ubuntu.php and this one for the nova t
> install
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV_Nova-T_500_PCI
>
> I've checked the onboard amplifier is being fired up on startup and I've
> used scan to get myself a channels.conf, I then got tzap and dvbstream
> to get BBC ONE playing in mplayer flawlessly. tzap reported a constant
> FE_HAS_LOCK so as far as I can tell linux itself and the drivers are
> working.
>
> Now the original myth version I had downloaded via apt-get for whatever
> reason wouldn't find anything on a full scan, think it might have been
> due to not setting the scan timeout high enough. But it would import
> from channels.conf and would view live tv and record livetv no problem
> BUT I couldn't get it to record any of the DVB Radio channels, it was
> complaining about having audio channels when it wanted video channels.
>
> After asking about on irc I realised I was using a fairly old version of
> myth so did some hacking around and got a new version from the package
> manager, I should point out at this point I'm no expert at ubuntu or
> linux in general so I just followed some guides till it worked. Problem
> was that this new version would do a full scan and find channels (with a
> suitably extended scan timeout) but wouldn't display anything in live tv
> or record anything, but importing from channels.conf wouldn't work
> either, the error in live tv was "L__" Partial lock, the OSD reported a
> 42% signal during this. Meanwhile tzap/dvbstream still work fine.
>
> So I hit another guide and pulled down a version from svn so at the
> moment I'm running 0.21.20070910-2 but I'm experiencing pretty much
> exactly the same problem, I can scan for channels, find em but I can't
> view anything. So ticking everything off, I know the drivers are working
> because I can view tv fine in mplayer, I know myth should work with it
> because the old version worked if imperfectly but I can't get anything
> to work with the newer version, I've searched through countless mailing
> lists and googled everywhere but havn't as yet found anything to fix my
> problem. So does anyone have any ideas? ;)
>
> Rob
>
>
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