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<Re-re-re-sending -- one of the mail daemons keeps rejecting><BR>
[Note to self: this address from top of today's e-mail: 041716, 20:23]<BR>
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Hi Curtis!<BR>
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Thanks for the quick reply!<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373">> Half-know the 'missing' tuners (2-4) are due to failed installation</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#737373">> attempts</FONT>
Yes, this is correct. When I've wanted to get rid of these in the past
I went into the backend and "deleted all tuners" regardless of system.
This will give you a clean state to start with.
Had done that and had a heck of a time getting the original HVR-1600 card
(adapter0,frontend0) working again. I'll be a 'chicken' and leave
things ugly!!
I'm not exactly sure what has gone wrong with your installation. I've
build three PVRs with dual HVR-2250 (not 2255) cards and these have
worked well for me. I wrote a tutorial on how I did it.
<A HREF="http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-install-mythbuntu1404">http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-install-mythbuntu1404</A>
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Very nice tutorial!! Glanced over and redid/added a few sections which seemed appropriate:<BR>
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At "I. Enable the Capture Card". Before doing anything I checked to see if the NXP7164*.fw file was there, Is. Figured it was as my checks in the original post seem to indicate was OK; redownloaded and copied and rebooted. Still unavailable.<BR>
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At "K. Install TV, DVD and HDD Utilities". Installed LeafPad and IVTV-UTILS. Latter identified as "TV Tuner Utilities" - maybe fixes something?! Nope. (And at this point no idea where that utility appears - I'm at the Desktop with Terminal running.)<BR>
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Continued on to "L. Ensure Full Boot Up After Power Off" because even though the Backend is on a UPS the power can be out for longer than the battery. Edited grub. The <TT>sudo update-grub </TT>command gave me warning: "Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported." Not sure if this is something you should be aware of.<BR>
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One thing I remembered while typing up there someplace is in MCC both cards aren't listed. Comes up fine _within_ #2 Capture Cards, but at the screen which appears after selecting #2 Capture Cards I see:<BR>
Capture Cards<BR>
(New capture card)<BR>
(Delete all capture cards on MythFE1) [which is the name of the Frontend portion, not the Backend portion]<BR>
(Delete all capture cards)<BR>
[DVB:/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0]<BR>
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Is that right or significant of something?? Not seeing the HVR1600 (adapter0/frontend0) listed seems odd, or (probably!) the first half of the HVR-2250 (1,0) listed (in brackets, not parenthesis) might be trying to tell me something. (The second half hasn't been started.) <BR>
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#4 Video Sources lists the HVR1600 and HVR2250a (again, the second half hasn't been started).<BR>
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#5 Input Connections lists <BR>
Input Connections<BR>
[DVB:/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0] (DVBInput -> HVR2250a<BR>
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(The Channel Editor lists the stations found during the earlier scan step.)<BR>
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OK, bugged you enough with the trivia! Thanks for helping!<BR>
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Barry
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