[mythtv-users] PCTV 290e DVB-T2 NanoStick not working with 0.25

[Andre Newman]

On 10 Oct 2013, at 10:23, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 10/10/13 09:22, PJR wrote:
>> I've recently clean rebuilt my system (with new discs) and installed
>> mythbuntu 12.04, mythtv 0.25.2-15. I've tried a PCTV 290e usb device and
>> it is not detected by mythbackend. The New Card Setup page gives:
>> Card Type: DVB DTV Capture card (V3.x)
>> DVB device: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend/0
>> Frontend Id: Could not get card info for ca|Subtype: Unknown error
>> 
>> Strangely if I run the command /scan -a 0
>> file_of_multiplex_data_including_HD_channels/ this returns the full list
>> of channels including the HD channels. This suggests the PCTV 290e is
>> detected and works.
>> 
>> The 290e used to work with my 11.10 mythtv, why doesn't it work with 12.04?
>> --
> 
> If it's detected by the OS but not by (a rather old version of) Myth you might try this:
> 
> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10830#comment:13

You definitely need that trick.

I also found with Ubuntu 12.04 (kernel 3.2.0) that the T290e was glitchy until I upgraded to 12.04.2 (the hwe kernel upgrade to 3.5.x) it also works fine with 12.04.3 (kernel 3.8.0) which is what I'm running right now.

Andre

> 
> FWIW the link in that should be to #11058
> 
> HTH
> 
> John P
> 
> 
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