<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 9:36 PM Will Dormann <<a href="mailto:wdormann@gmail.com">wdormann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 6/24/16 7:04 AM, Will Dormann wrote:<br>
> I've taken the connector from my HD-PVR wall wart and spliced it onto<br>
> molex red/black wires. So far so good! I'll probably know within a<br>
> week or so whether or not it fixes my problem. Thanks to you and Gary<br>
> for the ideas!<br>
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For the record, I've experienced the same trouble with the HD-PVR<br>
running off of my computer's PSU as I did with it running off of its<br>
6-year-old wall wart. That is, the unit occasionally gets stuck on<br>
with the recording light on, but it and /dev/video0 are not accessible.<br>
<br>
Given that I think I've eliminated the power supply as the cause of the<br>
problem, I suppose that leaves possibly the increased device load (being<br>
triggered once an hour with my STB power checking script) as the cause<br>
of the problem.<br>
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Which, if true, leaves me in the situation where I can have a system<br>
that periodically checks if my STB is powered on which ironically can<br>
trigger the state where my mythtv box cannot record from that source<br>
anymore. Or I don't regularly check if the STB is on, and then the STB<br>
being off might be a cause for failed recordings.<br>
<br>
So for now I think I'm going to disable the hourly<br>
STB-power-via-cat-/dev/video0 status check and just see how well the STB<br>
does on its own power-wise. I can't imagine that Verizon would push out<br>
firmware updates too often. Plus I figure I can shift the recording<br>
priority to the HDHR, leaving the HD-PVR for just the shows on<br>
copy-protected channels.<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Could it be temperature related? I know there were some hardware revisions related to heat on these. Mine are all running with the covers removed and good air circulation.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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