[mythtv-users] FireWire channel changer crapped out

Will Dormann wdormann at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 21:36:59 UTC 2020


On 8/2/2020 1:23 PM, DryHeat122 wrote:

> Wow this is strange.  As reported, yesterday I had FireWire working
> fine, and changing channels as intended after switching to the other
> regular-size 1394 socket.  Today it is broken!  As before, plugreport
> shows only node 0 with libiec61883 unable to read anything.  That is
> normal.  Yesterday it also showed a node 1 with the STB on it.  There is
> nothing in syslog about 1394 or firewire.  dmesg says the node was created:
> 
>     [    2.603920] firewire_core 0000:06:07.0: created device fw1: GUID
>     848dc771a2900000, S400

I assume that you've power cycled the STB at some point during all of
this?  In my years of firewire channel changing I can remember a couple
of times where rebooting the STB from a prior cable provider had caused
problems to go away.


-WD


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