[mythtv-users] Joy and pain

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Wed Feb 12 00:19:57 UTC 2014


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Hika,
>
> Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 12:42:51 AM, you wrote:
>
>> Hoi Daryl,
>
>> Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 9:36:37 PM, you wrote:
>
>>> Greetings mythizens, I installed my third single tuner card
>>> yesterday,to receive my third TV source, works great, much joy.
>>> In the process however I've managed to render my second card
>>> ineffective. It's an analog card receiving a signal from a DCT700 set
>>> top box, which has worked great for the last six months. Starting up
>>> my mythbox used to turn on the STB from a "check_stb" script in
>>> /usr/local/bin. that is called from my "change-channel.sh" also in
>>> /usr/local//bin. After a not so perfect first attempt to configure the
>>> third card I got a 0.0 gb recording from the analog card. I later went
>>> back in and deleted all capture cards and reconfigured them with their
>>> new order which got the new card working, but leaves the analog card
>>> not working. The serial port IR blaster is not changing channels nor
>>> is the "check_stb" checking if the motorola is on or not. Can anyone
>>> point me in the right direction to diagnose this problem?
>
>>> I'm running Steppes in myth 0.27 fixes in a Ubuntu 12.04lts desktop
>
>>> Thanks Daryl
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>
>> Aren't you suffering from udev moving your /dev/video* around, when it
>> first recognises the DVD card?
>
> Especially if the dvd and analog card use the same driver!
>
>
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
> Het eeuwige dilemma
> Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"
>
> De lerende Mens
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It's a hardware issue, I ran the "check_stb" in a terminal and it said
"hardware does not support IRSEND. UDEV is co-operating nicely.

Thanks Daryl


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