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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have had) no problems using the firewire connection and
the DCH3200 cable box for channel changing. When I upgraded my
cable box from a DCT2000 my ir blaster seemed to lose range. If it wasn’t
right over the eye it wouldn’t change the channel reliably. Then it
started getting worse when I upgraded to the latest mythbuntu. I
even created a different lirc file using irrecord but it seemed to work no
better or worse that the DCT2000 file.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>To get channel changing working I downloaded the 6200ch.c
from the svn branch, then set the permissions of /dev/raw1394 to mythtv.mythtv –
the right permissions for the backend in mythbuntu and used that in the backend
set up – and compiled the code. It has been very reliable.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I found that recording from the firewire was less
reliable, For some reason the connection would die but could be reliably
recovered by using the firewire tester program from the svn to reset the
firewire bus, then restart the backend (this seemed critical) the using firewire
tester in broadcast mode showed a connection and the show would record fine.
I could never figure out what triggered the connection to fail bit could always
wake it up with a reset and restart of the backend. Now, I was running mythtv
svn which had the DCH3200 as an option in the backend set up.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As I now have all of the QAM HD channels that were clear OTA
I reverted to the fixes branch and my hdhomerun as checking the cahnenl and
restarting the backend became a nuisance.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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