[mythtv-users] Problems with Hauppauge Nova-TD Dual Channel Diversity USB Stick (aka Elgato TD Diversity)

[Another Sillyname]

Thanks guys....

Just to let you know that I've had an exchange of emails with Jurgen who
wrote the original patch last year, he's written an update which has been
merged into the current git of V4L.  In theory if you build V4L yourself it
should all now work cleanly, I'll try it over the weekend and update here.

Regards and have a good weekend.


On Friday, 8 February 2013, Andre Newman <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On 8 Feb 2013, at 14:09, John Pilkington wrote:
>
>> On 08/02/13 09:12, Another Sillyname wrote:
>>> I've had a to post a new ticket as the old one is locked.
>>>
>>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11403
>>>
>>> On 8 February 2013 08:54, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com>
wrote:
>>>> Right Chaps
>>>>
>>>> It does appear to be that bug (I'll be re-opening it shortly)
>>>>
>>>> Running femon allowed me to get the device recognised but I can't get
>>>> a 'stable' lock with any permutation of LNA on or off and femon
>>>> running or not running while running the backend and then frontend
>>>> trying to tune into a channel.
>>
>> To answer the question you ask on the ticket:  running femon is just a
workaround for getting the tuner recognised initially.  After that it all
works as normal, without femon, at least in my experience.  The existing
ticket was closed because it's seen as an upstream problem, but it still
causes anguish.
>>
>> And I should add to my comments on the 290e that the kmdl I'm using with
the el6 kernel was last updated for driver changes in Nov 2011.  I would
expect recent mainstream kernels to work without add-ons.
>
> I am finding problems with the 290e in the standard Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0
kernels though many kernel updates, I get periodic glitches in all
recordings from this tuner. Upgrading to the 3.5.0 kernels in testing for
the Ubuntu hwe package fixes the problem completely, alternatively I have
tried running Ubuntu 12.10 also with 3.5.0 kernel which also works without
problems.
>
> A friend who runs a 290e also mentioned that the linux-media build script
has also been bad for the 290e up until the last few months.
>
> Andre
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