[mythtv-users] HD-PVR power cycling

[Tom Lichti]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Dan Wilga
<mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:
> On 5/4/11 2:53 PM, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com
>> <mailto:redpepperracing at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:21 PM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:george.galt at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Gavin Hurlbut
>>     <gjhurlbu at gmail.com <mailto:gjhurlbu at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > Gavin:
>>     >
>>     > If you are looking for orders, I'll take one.
>>
>>     Me too please.
>>
>>     Thanks
>>     Tom
>>
>>
>>
>> Cool.  I'll get a little webpage up for it in a day or two, and
>> hopefully send rev 1 of the boards off to China to get made.  I need
>> to find a faster (but still cheap) alternative to batchpcb.com...  3
>> weeks turnaround can be somewhat annoying.
>>
>> What caused me to just DO IT...   I got about 10 zero-byte recordings
>> during the day yesterday because my HD-PVR once again decided to take
>> a vacation.   Grrr.  So, I'm scratching the itch :)
>
> Has anyone made any progress on figuring out what the real reason for
> this issue is, in the first place? Is it the device firmware, or the
> software on the Linux side? Do Windows users have the same problem?
>
> I think it makes more sense to try to solve the issue than to spend time
> on a clever (but still fallible) workaround. The lockup problem is the
> sole reason I haven't bought one or two PD-PVRs. If my wife were to miss
> Dancing with the Stars due to a zero-length recording, I'd be in deep
> kaka :-).

I haven't actually run into the problem yet, but I've only been
running my HD-PVR in 'production' for a couple of weeks.

Tom