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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:bigboi@wackywombats.com">Paul Stillwell</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, January 16, 2017 3:52 PM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">Discussion about MythTV</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[mythtv-users] How to tell if HD PVR is still working?</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any help!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paul</p><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________</p><p class=MsoNormal>mythtv-users mailing list</p><p class=MsoNormal>mythtv-users@mythtv.org</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</p><p class=MsoNormal>MythTV Forums: https://forum.mythtv.org</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You might try something like: dmesg | grep hdpvr</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The output will tell you if the driver loaded at boot, if it is there you will see something about hdpvr and firmware date.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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</p></div></body></html>