<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 16, 2017, at 3:57 PM, <a href="mailto:glenb@glenb.us" class="">glenb@glenb.us</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: none; padding: 0in;" class=""><b class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:bigboi@wackywombats.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Paul Stillwell</a><br class=""><b class="">Sent:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Monday, January 16, 2017 3:52 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Discussion about MythTV</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[mythtv-users] How to tell if HD PVR is still working?</div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Hi,</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">My OS hard drive failed so I put a new drive in an installed fedora on it. After I installed mythtv (which was working perfectly prior to the OS disk failing) and restored from my backup db files I noticed that the HD PVR doesn’t seem to be working. I don’t get a /dev/video0 and I noticed that it isn’t showing up in the lsusb output (which I think it should).</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Is there any way to tell if it has stopped working? The power is on, I have tried multiple USB ports and it still doesn’t show up. It is many years old, so it could have died but it’s hard to tell.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks for any help!</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Paul</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">mythtv-users mailing list</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">MythTV Forums:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">You might try something like: dmesg | grep hdpvr</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The output will tell you if the driver loaded at boot, if it is there you will see something about hdpvr and firmware date.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Then do at cat /dev/video0 > test.ps and see if you get a file recording (use whatever device is shown by dmesg if not video0). Use Ctrl C to stop the test. There may be other ways also. But if those work and you get a file look to setup in myth</div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; 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font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">MythTV Forums:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><font color="#954f72" class=""><u class=""><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org" class="">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></u></font></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I can’t even get a /dev/video0. :(</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Something I just noticed is that when I plug the USB cable for the HD PVR in to my linux machine I get the following output from demise:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #34bd26" class="">[ 2238.817081] </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #afad24" class="">usb 8-2</span>: new full-speed USB device number 5 using uhci_hcd</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(195, 55, 32);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #34bd26" class="">[ 2239.225098] </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #afad24" class="">usb 8-2</span>: device not accepting address 5, error -71</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(195, 55, 32);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #34bd26" class="">[ 2239.225116] </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #afad24" class="">usb usb8-port2</span>: unable to enumerate USB device</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That seems to indicate that the device is having a problem, but I’m not an expert in this area.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I mod probe hdpvr I get this in dmesg:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #34bd26" class="">[ 65.563736] </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #afad24" class="">media</span>: Linux media interface: v0.10</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(175, 173, 36);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #34bd26" class="">[ 65.574350] </span>Linux video capture interface<span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">: v2.00</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #34bd26" class="">[ 65.579441] </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #afad24" class="">usbcore</span>: registered new interface driver hdpvr</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t see anything about the hdpvr or firmware info.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>