[mythtv-users] HDPVR intermittent failure

Thu Jul 23 00:47:53 UTC 2020

That was it...I had the wrong group in the config file.  Now Myth no longer
says the recorder is offline, the recordings are merely failing.  So that's
progress?

I think it might be failing because my channel changer is failing, and that
is because my FireWire seems to be hosed. plugreport returns nothing,
firewire_tester can't connect to any port.

This is bizarre because FireWire and the channel changer was working until
I started the recorder changeover this morning. Can you think of any reason
the HDPVR2 software would affect FireWire?

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020, 5:31 PM John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:12 PM DryHeat122 <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 1:07 PM DryHeat122 <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 9:44 AM DryHeat122 <dryheat122 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 4:12 AM John Hoyt <john.hoyt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That is not for the inexperienced or faint of heart to install and
>>>>>> configure. It scares me a little :-) I can't imagine what it was like to
>>>>>> develop it!
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Configuration is actually not as scary as it looks at first.  Also, it
>>>>> was quite worth it as I've found my colossus to work with higher
>>>>> reliability and better quality than my HDPVR ever did.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're running  Ubuntu - you can use the compiled binary on my
>>>>> Launchpad ppa to skip the compile steps -
>>>>> https://launchpad.net/~john-hoyt/+archive/ubuntu/hauppaugeusb
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I decided to try this with my current Myth setup, and it looks like you
>>>> don't have a version for Ubuntu 16.04.  So I did the compile myself.
>>>> Everything was going great until the very end of the make and I got:
>>>>
>>>> g++ -g -c -Wall -std=c++11 -fdiagnostics-color -DBOOST_LOG_DYN_LINK
>>>> -pthread -m64 -g -O3 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDRIVER_BUILD -DHAUPPAUGE -DHCW_E5BDA
>>>> `pkg-config --cflags libusb-1.0` -I.. -I./Hauppauge/Common
>>>> -I./Wrappers/linux -I./Hauppauge/Common/FX2API
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842 -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/LIB
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/HAL
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/HAL/4G
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/HAL/4G/ADV7842/HAL
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/ADV7842/RX/HAL/4G/ADV7842/MACROS
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/Rx -I./Hauppauge/Common/EncoderDev
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/EncoderDev/HAPIHost
>>>> -I./Hauppauge/Common/EncoderDev/HAPIHost/MChip `pkg-config --cflags
>>>> libusb-1.0` ./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/audio_CS8416.cpp -o audio_CS8416.o
>>>> ./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/audio_CS8416.cpp: In member function ‘bool
>>>> audio_CS8416::DeviceIO::write(audio_CS8416::DeviceIO::Reg, const uint8_t*,
>>>> size_t)’:
>>>> ./Hauppauge/Common/Rx/audio_CS8416.cpp:173:39: error: ‘memcpy’ was not
>>>> declared in this scope
>>>>          memcpy(sendbuff + 1, data, len);
>>>>                                        ^
>>>> Makefile:61: recipe for target 'audio_CS8416.o' failed
>>>> make: *** [audio_CS8416.o] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> What to do?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I know next to nothing about cpp but I looked up the error, and it seems
>>> to be caused by failure to declare #include <cstring>  I added that to the
>>> top of  audio_CS8416.cpp and the build completed without errors.
>>> Perhaps @JohnPoet would like to add this to the patches?
>>>
>>> Bottom line is that I now have it working.  Here are a couple of notes
>>> for others trying this:
>>>
>>> When I first connected the HDPVR2 the light was rapid flashing blue
>>> which according to docs means the machine can't "see" it.  When I tried to
>>> record I got a repeated error:
>>>
>>> 2020-07-22T12:15:53.632520 ERRR <main> USBif.cpp:485 (controlMessage)
>>> cannot send control message: No such device (it may have been disconnected)
>>>
>>> But after exiting the commsn the light was solid blue.  So I tried again
>>> and got
>>>
>>> 2020-07-22T12:16:42.638981 CRIT <main> Logger.cpp:83 (setLogLevelFilter)
>>> Changing loglevel to NOTC
>>> 2020-07-22T12:16:42.639124 CRIT <main> hauppauge2.cpp:347 (main)
>>> Starting up
>>> 2020-07-22T12:16:42.650486 CRIT <main> hauppauge2.cpp:360 (main)
>>> Initializing [Bus: 2, Port: 6] E524-00-00ABAE4A
>>> [long pause]
>>> 2020-07-22T12:17:05.061224 CRIT <main> HauppaugeDev.cpp:392
>>> (init_component) Cannot determine video mode.
>>> 2020-07-22T12:17:05.362389 CRIT <main> hauppauge2.cpp:476 (main) Done.
>>>
>>> I discovered that the second to last error means there is no video
>>> signal.  My cable box was off.  After turning it on I got a recording.
>>>
>>> For the devs, I did get one error:
>>>
>>> 2020-07-22T12:50:50.152620 ERRR <main> FX2Device.cpp:115 (I2CWriteRead)
>>> I2C: Improper answer: status 07
>>>
>>> I don't know what it means, but it didn't prevent the recording.
>>>
>>> Thanks for all the help everyone!
>>>
>>
>> Sooooo...having the HDPVR2 making test recordings, I set it up in Myth
>> per the instructions in the https://github.com/jpoet/HauppaugeUSB.  When
>> I try to record anything, say from the program guide, it says "recorder
>> offline" and I can find nothing in the frontend or backend logs about it.
>> However, the recorder shows the half-green lite indicating it's ready and I
>> can still do test recordings.  How to  troubleshoot?
>>
>
> My first guess would be a permission problem. The HD-PVR2 externalrecorder
> process will run as the same user as mythbackend. If that user does not
> have permission to write its log file, for example, it will fail.
>
> Run mythbackend with "-v channel,record", if you are not already. The
> mythbackend log should show the reason for the error.
>
> John
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