<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:08 PM DryHeat122 . <<a href="mailto:dryheat122@gmail.com">dryheat122@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:00 PM John Hoyt <<a href="mailto:john.hoyt@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.hoyt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What chipset is your firewire device using? In the past I had issues using 6200ch with some of the cheaper (i.e. non-Texas Instrument) chipsets, the only ones I could ever get to work consistently has a TI chipset.</div>
_______________________________________________<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You mean on the STB or the MythTV machine? I don't know the answer for either, but I had a firewire channel changer working on the MythTV box with the previous STB I had. The cable company made me change it >:-( </div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So here's something. I unplugged the firewire cable and ran plugreport again, and got the same node0 info as before. So it would seem that node0 is the firewire adapter on the MthTV machine, and that maybe I had a bad cable. Got a new cable and ran plugreport and got<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>steve@steve-EP45-UD3P:~$ sudo plugreport</div><div>Host Adapter 0</div><div>==============</div><div><br></div><div>Node 0 GUID 0x00e6bc100000241d</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR</div><div>libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR</div><div><br></div><div>Node 1 GUID 0x848dc771a2900000</div><div>------------------------------</div><div>oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63</div><div>oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>channel=0, data_rate=0, overhead_id=0, payload=0</div><div>iMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2</div><div>iPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=0</div><div><span style="white-space:pre"> </span>channel=0</div><div><br></div><div>Alright then, getting somewhere! But I tried to run 6200ch and got:</div><div><br></div><div>steve@steve-EP45-UD3P:~$ sudo ./6200ch -g 0x848dc771a2900000 -v -q</div><div>starting with node: 0</div><div>node 1: vendor_id = 0x00848dc7 model_id = 0x00001286</div><div>Could not find Motorola DCT-6200 on the 1394 bus.</div></div><div><br></div><div>The model id is the same as what the box diagnostics gave, but the vendor is different. So I recompiled with the different vendor id and it still returns the same message. Sigh. Not to sure where to go from here. </div></div></div></div>