[mythtv-users] tuner numbering

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Daryl,

Saturday, March 1, 2014, 10:04:18 PM, you wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hoi Daryl,
>>
>> Saturday, March 1, 2014, 2:11:08 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:26:34 -0000, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hoi Roger,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Saturday, March 1, 2014, 12:16:06 AM, you wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Permissions can't be the problem on the simlinks, simlinks inherit
>>>>>> from their source. But it can be on the directories! I don't know
>>>>>> without research, but can you set the group of the directories on
>>>>>> video,... or are they already?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> True. The GROUP "assigns group ownership of the device file to the video
>>>>> group". Yes, I would expect them to be already and I've never had to use
>>>>> them but, IIRC, they were discussed on the earlier thread and you never
>>>>> know! Desperate measures....
>>>>>
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>>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ grep -i video /etc/group
>>>> video:x:44:mythtv
>>>>
>>>> "should show that mythtv & daryl are members"  does it?
>>
>>> Good morning Roger and Hoi Hika, I went ahead and added the
>>> GROUP="video", opened the BE set up, and even though:
>>
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -i /dev/dvb*
>>> 8104 adapter0  8484 adapter3  7988 HP1250  8634 PC800i
>>> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$
>>
>>> the symlinks seem to be in force, same scenario, no presentation of
>>> symlink name, and error message if I type it in.
>>
>>> I changed the numbers to 1 and 3 for the PC800i and HP1250
>>> respectively in /etc/modprobe.d/dvb-options.conf and only the later
>>> picks up. Why are there four different numbers preceding the adapters
>>> and symlinks?    Daryl
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>>
>> As Mark says, try ls -l /dev/dvb to check the group ownership of the
>> directories. Either they should be owned by the video group or have rx
>> permission set on world.
>>
>> Tot mails,
>>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
>>
>> "Zonder hoop kun je niet leven
>> Zonder leven is er geen hoop
>> Het eeuwige dilemma
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>>
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> Thanks Gentlemen, I'm thinking this does show what we were looking for:

> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ ls -l /dev/dvb
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar  1 11:50 adapter0
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar  1 11:50 adapter3
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar  1 11:50 HP1250
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Mar  1 11:50 PC800i
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$    Daryl
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Seems OK. I then have one thought left. rename the directories to
adapterHP1250 and adapterPC800i. It is theoretically possible that
mythtv looks for names starting with adapter.
If that doesn't work, I'm out of thoughts for now.

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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