Thank your for your reply, I am currently not at my Mythbox but I will try that out later today, I only have to worry about the rx thread in zilog only if I want the HDPVR to receive from its IR receiver correct. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Jarod Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Jun 10, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Adam Jimerson wrote:<br>
<br>
> Ok so I just bought a HDPVR to connect my satellite box to my Mythbox,<br>
> so far everything is going well, I was able to cat /dev/video0 to a .ts<br>
> file and had both video and sound with out having to update any firmware<br>
> on the PVR (on the bottom of the box it says that it is a "Rev F2"). I<br>
> got if setup in myth for the most part but the trouble I have is during<br>
> trying to set up the IR Transmitter and have several questions...<br>
><br>
> 1. Following the directions on the Myth's wiki for the device step for<br>
> for adding the HD-PVR to MythTV says "Important Note: You must set a<br>
> channel change script for the HD-PVR to work properly. If you don't care<br>
> about channel changes, you can set it to /bin/true, but there absolutely<br>
> must be a channel change script defined." I would like to have myth be<br>
> able to change the channel on my satellite box but what scripts is it<br>
> referring to?<br>
<br>
</div>There are multiple channel changing scripts in the mythtv wiki, any<br>
that are for lirc can be adapted to work. There's also one linked to at<br>
another location I'll link to later on in this reply. :)<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> 2. I have Lirc and the Lirc utilities package installed on my distro<br>
> (Arch Linux) and upon starting lircd it sees the HD-PVR but I don't see<br>
> a hardware.conf anywhere on my system, I tried using locate but it seems<br>
> to not exists is this a problem?<br>
<br>
</div>hardware.conf is a not part of upstream lirc, despite what legions of<br>
Ubuntu users would lead you believe. It doesn't exist on most other<br>
distributions outside of Debian derivatives. All it does is feed params<br>
to your lirc initscript though. Fedora uses /etc/sysconfig/lirc to do<br>
similar, not entirely sure about other distros.<br>
<br>
Adding a standard lirc daemon config file that lircd itself reads is<br>
on my TODO list, so we *do* have a common centralized config, rather<br>
than every distribution rolling its own.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> 3. When checking dmesg the output of lirc_zilog is confusing:<br>
><br>
> [107355.768180] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 249<br>
><br>
> [107355.768685] lirc_zilog: module is from the staging directory, the<br>
> quality is unknown, you have been warned.<br>
> [107355.769772] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR driver initializing<br>
><br>
> [107355.770554] lirc_zilog: probing IR Rx on Hauppage HD PVR I2C (i2c-6)<br>
><br>
> [107355.770560] lirc_zilog: probe of IR Rx on Hauppage HD PVR I2C<br>
> (i2c-6) done. Waiting on IR Tx.<br>
> [107355.770568] lirc_zilog: probing IR Tx on Hauppage HD PVR I2C (i2c-6)<br>
><br>
> 107355.770711] i2c i2c-6: lirc_dev: driver lirc_zilog registered at<br>
> minor = 0<br>
> [107355.795975] lirc_zilog: firmware haup-ir-blaster.bin not available<br>
> (-2)<br>
<br>
</div>You're missing the necessary binary blaster index-to-signal-waveform<br>
data blob that has to be loaded into the driver for it to be able to<br>
actually transmit.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> [107355.796070] lirc_zilog: ir_probe: probing IR Tx on Hauppage HD PVR<br>
> I2C (i2c-6) failed with -2<br>
> [107355.796083] Zilog/Hauppauge i2c IR: probe of 6-0070 failed with<br>
> error -2<br>
> [107355.796126] lirc_zilog: initialization complete<br>
><br>
> I take it by the fact that I only have a /dev/licrd and no /dev/lirc0<br>
> that it failed? If so is this a problem with the firmware on the PVR or<br>
> a issue with the drivers for the IR Transmitter I didn't compile them<br>
> manually just using the ones packaged by Arch (I didn't see any<br>
> instructions on the wiki for it...)<br>
<br>
</div>Read up here:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://wilsonet.com/?p=40" target="_blank">http://wilsonet.com/?p=40</a><br>
<br>
Start at "Either way, you still need a firmware image..." though, since<br>
the earlier bits are all irrelevant, now that the patches to enable the<br>
IR part on the hdpvr are all upstream.<br>
<br>
Also, watch out for a zilog rx thread pegging your cpu, there's a bug<br>
in certain eras of lirc_zilog code, for which I just sent a patch upstream<br>
yesterday. Optionally, if you're not using the rx bit, load lirc_zilog<br>
with the module parameter tx_only=1.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Jarod Wilson<br>
<a href="mailto:jarod@wilsonet.com">jarod@wilsonet.com</a><br>
<br>
<br>
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