<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 December 2017 at 04:15, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:27:51 +0000, you wrote:<br>
<br>
>By the sound of Mike's suggestions I probably haven't quite got the drivers<br>
>for the cards working yet.<br>
><br>
>As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, it would be useful to have a simple<br>
>way to test that the card works before attempting to make it work with<br>
>myth. The moral equivalent of "let me play this video with VLC and see if I<br>
>hear any audio" before spending hours trying to get the audio configuration<br>
>screens of myth to produce sounds when the fault was misconfigured drivers<br>
>or bios or amplifier or whatnot.<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, from those logs I would suspect the card is not working properly<br>
yet. I have a script I use to scan the transponders on my satellite<br>
(Optus D1), which is a good way of testing if the card is working. It<br>
produces a list of all the channels on all the transponders. I have<br>
put a copy here on my web server:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/skynz-satellite-scan.sh" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/<wbr>skynz-satellite-scan.sh</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for this. The card is almost working now, as I just wrote in another message in this thread, but a test script like yours is definitely something I'd want to have in my arsenal of debugging tools so I'll give it a go next.</div><br></div></div></div>