[mythtv-users] tuner numbering

[Daryl McDonald]

After creating, closing, and going back in, selecting either symlink,
it shows me "adapter0/frontend0" and after selecting finish the
symlink name goes to the bottom of the list of cards, from second or
fourth of five positions.

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hoi Daryl,
>
> Friday, February 28, 2014, 1:51:51 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:08:57 -0000, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK, that is what was returned to me too:
>>>> DEVLINKS=/dev/dvb/test5/dvr0 /dev/dvb/test6/dvr0 /dev/test1 /dev/test2
>>>> /dev/test4
>>>>
>>>> And as I look back through previous commands, my bad, only this time
>>>> did I disable "digital-card", last attempt I disabled "capture-card",
>>>> apologies.
>>>
>>>
>>> No, that was correct. You did right.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Seems now though that we're on the right rack. This test
>>>> result was with both disabled, and after returning "capture-card"
>>>> (this does keep the analog side of things straight)to .rules, I get
>>>> the same test result, so now where do you recommend I go with the
>>>> "digital-rules"?  Daryl
>>>
>>>
>>> I suspect there's something wrong with your file digital-cards.rules. What
>>> you last posted/indicated *looks* right, but it's tricky to see typos with
>>> this stuff. And IIRC there was a previous occasion where someone (you?)
>>> picked up an invisible character (non-breaking space ?) from an HTML email,
>>> which prevented a script from working. Anyway now we know test.rules works,
>>> treat it gently...
>>>
>>> So:
>>>
>>> 1. Delete digital-card.rules
>>> 2. Rename test.rules to digital-card.rules
>>> 3. Remove rules 1-4 and 6 - you only want to retain the rule with test5 in
>>> it.
>>> 4. Change "test5" to "HP1250"
>>> 5. Duplicate the rule using copy/paste. In the 2nd rule change the device id
>>> to "0x8802" and the symlink to "PC800i"
>>> 6. Run the usual udevadm command on adapter 0 & 6 - you should see
>>> appropriate DEVLINKS on both.
>>> 7. Reboot and look for 2 directories /dev/dvb/HP1250 and /dev/dvb/PC800i.
>>> Both should contain symlinks as per my original post.
>>> 8. Try them out in mythtv-setup etc, etc.
>>>
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>
>> OK the links are set-up:
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /dev/dvb/HP1250
>> total 0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 28 07:29 demux0 -> ../adapter6/demux0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 28 07:29 dvr0 -> ../adapter6/dvr0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 28 07:29 frontend0 -> ../adapter6/frontend0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 28 07:29 net0 -> ../adapter6/net0
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /dev/dvb/PC800i
>> total 0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Feb 28 07:29 demux0 -> ../adapter0/demux0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 28 07:29 dvr0 -> ../adapter0/dvr0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 28 07:29 frontend0 -> ../adapter0/frontend0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 28 07:29 net0 -> ../adapter0/net0
>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>
>> But still when I go into the BE>CaptureCards, they will only present
>> as adapter0/6 frontend0, I can type the smylink name in, and the card
>> is not recognized or opened. IIRC Bill Meek said the symlink name
>> would present while toggling through the adapter line, that's not my
>> experience.  Daryl
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>
> And if you create a new adater, type in the simlink, close the setup,
> restart the backend and go back to the setup.
>
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>
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