[mythtv-users] Help with HDHomerun

Donald Brett dlbrett108 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 24 05:38:34 UTC 2023


On 1/23/2023 11:24 PM, Donald Brett via mythtv-users wrote:
> On 1/23/2023 5:34 PM, James B Huber wrote:
>> Doing a TOP posting no-no...
>>
>> I did all that, I have 2 tuners, I look on the DB and the Channel 
>> ID's XMLTV ID's etc. all look just fine.
>> I see the following in the backend logs when I start it up:
>> Jan 23 18:06:18 ezekiel mythbackend: mythbackend[1315778]: I 
>> CoreContext recorders/hdhrstreamhandler.cpp:385 (Connect) 
>> HDHRSH[0](1092523D): Added 2 devices from 1092523D
>> Jan 23 18:06:18 ezekiel mythbackend: mythbackend[1315778]: I 
>> CoreContext recorders/hdhrstreamhandler.cpp:402 (Connect) 
>> HDHRSH[0](1092523D): Connected to device(1092523D-0)
>> Jan 23 18:06:18 ezekiel mythbackend: mythbackend[1315778]: E 
>> CoreContext recorders/hdhrstreamhandler.cpp:484 (TunerSet) 
>> HDHRSH[0](1092523D): DeviceSet(vchannel WOTFDT3): ERROR: invalid 
>> virtual channel
>>
>> FWIW, that is the name on channel 26.3
>>
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Mon, 2023-01-23 at 18:26 -0500, James Abernathy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 6:18 PM James B Huber <jbhuber at judahnet.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>   I am in the process of adding a (what I thought was a HomeRun 
>>>> Connect Duo) HDHomeRun to my setup.
>>>> Existing 2 tuners are FREEBOX (IPTV tuners) handled by hardware 
>>>> encoders fed from set-top box HDMI, with external
>>>> channel changing handled by 2 scripts tied into Myth via 
>>>> "recording_pending" and "recording_started" events.
>>>> Works just fine.
>>>>
>>>> I have picked up I thought a connect duo, poking at the http 
>>>> interface of it, it actuallu appears to be
>>>> HDFX-2US (IE: Flex Duo) running 20221205 firmware.
>>>> It scaned channels, and I can see/watch it with the Windows app, or 
>>>> from the "hdhomerun-config-gui"
>>>> on the Myth box.
>>>>
>>>> I have handled getting guide data in, it shows up in the web-gui 
>>>> (the HDHR channels), I tell it to record
>>>> something and end up with a ZERO byte file, I see no errors, the 
>>>> events for pending and started properly ignore
>>>> these 2 tuners...
>>>>
>>>> How in the heck does this thing pick it's channels, and how does 
>>>> Myth pick it up ?
>>>>
>>>> Is my issue that I really need some way to "change channels" on 
>>>> this thing ? I would have assumed that
>>>> since it's all on the network, that Myth knows how to talk to it 
>>>> and what to do ?
>>>>
>>>> Suggestions on how to proceed or what to be looking at ?
>>>>
>>>> The Myth box is on Linux Mint 20.3 (which is built on Ubuntu 20.04 
>>>> LTS) and is running
>>>> "31.0+fixes.202203040618.7e4ce1ba98~ubuntu20.04.1"
>>>>
>>>> Thanks as always,
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>
>>> In mythtv-setup you just add 2 HDHR tuners, since it's a Duo.  Add 
>>> you Video Source, OTA(EIT) or Schedules Direct, etc.
>>>
>>> Then in Input Connections associate the Video source to the tuners 
>>> and on at least one of the tuners you need to run the Scan part of 
>>> Input Connections.
>>>
>>> That should do it.
>>>
>>> Jim A
>>>
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>
> FWIW, I have an Hdhomerun quatro, which has four tuners. Sometimes an 
> example is helpful.
>
> Capture cards > Created 4 tuners, all pointing to the same ip address, 
> each with a unique name (Ant-1, Ant-2, Ant-3, Ant-4)
> Video sources > Created a single source, named "Antenna", using 
> Schedules Direct JSON API (xmltv) for the Listing Grabber
> Input connections > Created 4 connections:
>     "Input name" is MPEG2TS on each connection
>     "Display name is Ant-1 for first, Ant-2 for second, Ant-3 for 
> third, and Ant-4 for forth
>     "Video Source" is Antenna for each connection
>
> Don
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By the way, check Input Connections > Pick an input > scroll to 
"Starting channel" and confirm it's correct.  I've seen bad numbers on 
this field.  Repeat for each connection.

Don


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