[mythtv-users] HDPVR - no longer recording!

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Sat May 12 11:17:28 UTC 2018


On Sat, May 12, 2018, 4:04 AM Dave Pearson (Lists) <lists at the-pearsons.co.uk>
wrote:

> So, owing to the fact that they're getting a bit old and more difficult to
> find, I bought another HD-PVR from E-Bay.
>
>
> After it arrived I decided that I should test it, so I swapped all of the
> cables from my working HD-PVR and put them inm the new one. I had to
> reconfigure mythtv to use /dev/video0 (as I'd been using udev to name the
> original device a /dev/HDPVR) but, unfortunately I wasn't able to record
> anything.
>
>
> I then swapped the original HDPVR back and now I find that that one won't
> work either.
>
>
> I could really do with some troubelshooting assistance, as I've tried
> everything I can thinkl of (cat /dev/video0 > test.ts results in an empty
> file)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave.
>
>
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Was the original power supply used for both devices in your test?

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