<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Ronald Frazier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ron@ronfrazier.net">ron@ronfrazier.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I've had a handful of other things keeping me busy, but I've been<br>
playing with the Ceton card a little bit at a time when I got the<br>
chance. I got the network bridging working so that the Ceton's<br>
interface is accessible from my entire home network. That was a bit<br>
tricky in that there seems to be a bug in the Ceton's networking code<br>
and how it handles subnet masks. As a result, I spent a lot of time<br>
going down a dead end path that would never have worked, but I've<br>
figured it out now.<br>
<br>
As far as getting it working in myth, I've been trying to hack<br>
together my own recorder just to get it working well enough to tide me<br>
over until Daniel's code is ready. After about a week with no<br>
success(mostly due to my lack of understanding all the fine details<br>
about how myth's recorder architecture works, much of which is still a<br>
mystery to me), last night I finally got it to record in myth. At the<br>
moment, it's VERY crude. It doesn't even handle changing the channel<br>
(you do that manually via the web interface, and myth just THINKS that<br>
it changed the channel). There's about a 15 second delay when changing<br>
channels in LiveTV mode (not the card's fault...it's purely my code).<br>
It doesn't do any signal monitoring (I won't even bother with that<br>
since this is only temporary code). There's no channel scanning (so<br>
you manually configure the channels...and again, I probably won't<br>
bother with this since it's only temporary...maybe just write a perl<br>
script to hack the channels into the DB). Since it was just before bed<br>
when I got it working, I haven't yet had a chance to see if there are<br>
any issues with commflagging, building the seek table, scheduling,<br>
etc.<br>
<br>
So it's got a ways to go, but I'm making some positive progress. I<br>
have no idea whether or not I'll be able to figure out enough of<br>
myth's recording architecture to be of any use contributing code to<br>
Daniel (if he's even interested). If I can, and if he wants it, then<br>
I'll consider doing so. Either way, at least it will hopefully be<br>
working for me soon. And if anyone here is brave enough to buy one of<br>
these cards ($100 rebate expires in a few days...no word on whether it<br>
will be extended), compile myth from source, and willing to try<br>
compiling in some very hacky code, I'd be willing to share with you<br>
the code I've got once it's all mostly working (and hopefully I don't<br>
run into any brick walls that stop me from getting it working).<br>
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--<br>
Ron Frazier<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Ron,<br><br>I am glad to see progress, and I am very interested in trying this. Which version or branch of MythTV did you end up using? I was hoping .24-fixes, but I assume since you said "compile myth from source" that you are using .25 master, dkristjansson/mythtv-rec, or mythtv-rec2. Did you use the import recorder as you tried early on or something else?<br>
<br>Keep up the good work!<br><br>-Tom Bongiorno<br>