[mythtv-users] HDHomerun wierdness

[Rob Davis]

On 29/08/12 21:41, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 8/29/2012 18:34, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Rob Davis <rob at davis-family.info> wrote:
>> ....
>>> Looks to me like a signal error, or weak signal.  I would have
>>> guessed it to
>>> be that if every other device wasn't working well.
>>
>> My recollection was that the original HDHR duals, which you said you
>> had, were known to have tuner sensitivity issues (compared to some
>> other cards, or some TVs), so what works with your PCI cards may
>> simply be too weak for the HDHRs (my further recollection was that
>> the newer models had better sensitivity).
>
> That was combined with the fact that you were driving two tuners
> independently, each at half strength if you were not using an amp. The
> current 3rd generation units only have a single input with an internal amp.

Wouldn't that show up though as an S error on the command line test?
I did a hdhomerun_config 1018D4DC set /tuner0/channel 73
and  hdhomerun_config xxxxxxx save /tuner0 null

and just got dots..?  When I tested it with my flaky OTA channel I got a 
few S's..

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Rob Davis