[mythtv-users] How to tell if HD PVR is still working?

[Paul Stillwell]

> On Jan 16, 2017, at 3:57 PM, glenb at glenb.us wrote:
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> From: Paul Stillwell <mailto:bigboi at wackywombats.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 3:52 PM
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> Subject: [mythtv-users] How to tell if HD PVR is still working?
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> Hi,
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> My OS hard drive failed so I put a new drive in an installed fedora on it. After I installed mythtv (which was working perfectly prior to the OS disk failing) and restored from my backup db files I noticed that the HD PVR doesn’t seem to be working. I don’t get a /dev/video0 and I noticed that it isn’t showing up in the lsusb output (which I think it should).
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> Is there any way to tell if it has stopped working? The power is on, I have tried multiple USB ports and it still doesn’t show up. It is many years old, so it could have died but it’s hard to tell.
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> Thanks for any help!
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> Paul
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> You might try something like: dmesg | grep hdpvr
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> The output will tell you if the driver loaded at boot, if it is there you will see something about hdpvr and firmware date.
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> Then do at cat /dev/video0 > test.ps and see if you get a file recording (use whatever device is shown by dmesg if not video0). Use Ctrl C to stop the test. There may be other ways also. But if those work and you get a file look to setup in myth
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I can’t even get a /dev/video0. :(

Something I just noticed is that when I plug the USB cable for the HD PVR in to my linux machine I get the following output from demise:

[ 2238.817081] usb 8-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using uhci_hcd
[ 2239.225098] usb 8-2: device not accepting address 5, error -71
[ 2239.225116] usb usb8-port2: unable to enumerate USB device

That seems to indicate that the device is having a problem, but I’m not an expert in this area.

When I mod probe hdpvr I get this in dmesg:

[   65.563736] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[   65.574350] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   65.579441] usbcore: registered new interface driver hdpvr

I don’t see anything about the hdpvr or firmware info.

Paul


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