[mythtv-users] homewrun firmware

Gary Buhrmaster gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com
Thu May 18 02:59:03 UTC 2023


On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 7:18 PM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a correlation between Mythtv recognizing my HDHR's and their need for a firmware update? Until I did an update they would both error out, and be unavailable to myth, unless I restarted the Backend. Since the update they are immediately available, no errors.

That is usually related to a network issue, not the
firmware reboot (itself).  Especially consumer grade
(crappy(*)) routers that are trying to be "helpful"
can result in devices that are not found until they
(re)announce themselves at reboot time.

I have never experiences the symptoms you
have described.  FD: All my networking equipment
is business and/or enterprise and/or DC and/or
ISP targeted, which provides extensive
configurability and visibility into the network.

> How often does Silicon Dust offer updates? I'd rather not use a failed recording to prompt updating my devices.

SD upgrades their firmware on a somewhat
random schedule (based on what they need
and when they need it).

There is a topic on their forum that you can
subscribe to get get notifications of updates
(but you have to visit that topic after notification
in order to reset the notification state, and it
includes more then just device firmware).  You
should, perhaps, ask SD to create an email
notification list you can subscribe to (like most
PC manufacturers have for BIOS updates).



(*) Consumer grade is almost universally crap.


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