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

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On 8 February 2013 14:28, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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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For I have been running two Nova-TD USB tuners on my mythsetup with no
problems for several years with Mythbuntu 11.04/MythTV0.24 on a Revo 3610.

The only problems recently are since going to 12.04LTS/MythTV 0.25 (and now
0.26) in that after starting mythbackend the tuners fail to lock and only
get a partial lock the first time and thus recordings/liveTV fail. If I go
into liveTV and select each Input then from then on in they will lock just
fine until the next reboot/mythbackend restart

Martin
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