<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 6:16 AM Will Dormann <<a href="mailto:wdormann@gmail.com">wdormann@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">On 7/22/20 7:04 PM, John Hoyt wrote:<br>
> I decided to try this with my current Myth setup, and it looks like<br>
> you don't have a version for Ubuntu 16.04. <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Correct - sorry about that. Unfortunately launchpad blocks the upload<br>
> for no longer supported versions of Ubuntu. I used to have a Xenial<br>
> build posted, but dropped it when I ran out of space in launchpad.<br>
<br>
<br>
I think I'll add myself to the list of HD-PVR 1212 owners where the<br>
device has slowly gotten less and less reliable over time. And my power<br>
is coming from the computer's PSU, so it can't be the supplied wall wart<br>
that's the problem.<br>
<br>
The latest failure sequence was just yesterday:<br>
1) Noticed recording that was choppy<br>
2) Power cycled HD-PVR<br>
3) Rather than being recognized by the computer, it showed up in dmesg as:<br>
usb 1-6: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd<br>
usb 1-6: Device not responding to setup address.<br>
usb 1-6: Device not responding to setup address.<br>
usb 1-6: device not accepting address 10, error -71<br>
<br>
Where the device number would increment with each power cycle. This<br>
happened once before perhaps a year ago and I did some number of actions<br>
including opening the case, switching USB ports on the computer, and<br>
switching USB cables, and eventually it worked.<br>
<br>
This time around I ended up giving up on it, only to realize that just<br>
after leaving it sit there for a while the device was picked up, and I<br>
confirmed that it is functional to record.<br>
<br>
<br>
Anyway, long story short, I want a contingency plan for when my device<br>
fully kicks the bucket, and this HD-PVR 2 stuff has piqued my interest.<br>
But I'm a little curious:<br>
<br>
1) Ubuntu 16.04 reaches EOL on April 2021, which hasn't arrived yet. So<br>
it seems odd that the upload to support 16.04 wouldn't be allowed for<br>
that reason.<br>
2) It looks like the project page <a href="https://github.com/jpoet/HauppaugeUSB" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/jpoet/HauppaugeUSB</a><br>
indicates that fixes/31 is required. Is this required to support<br>
external recorders in general?<br>
<br>
<br>
Based on track record, I've found that updating a system without a<br>
specific worthwhile reason will usually end up in one of two scenarios:<br>
1) After some indefinite amount of time/effort spent, the system may<br>
work as well as it did before.<br>
2) After some indefinite amount of time/effort spent, the system isn't<br>
working as it did before.<br>
<br>
As such, I'm a happy owner of a MythTV 29.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 system (ever<br>
since 14.04 went EOL, lather, rinse, repeat...)<br>
<br>
If I happen to go the HD-PVR2 route, or if April 2021 rolls around<br>
before I know it, I'm curious if there are any guides to help avoid any<br>
"gotchas" with updating to a newer version of Ubuntu. I seem to recall<br>
seeing chatter here about lirc being problematic starting with Ubuntu<br>
18.04? And I'm an old school lircd user with a homemade receiver wired<br>
into a serial port. I'd hate to go down an upgrade path that results in<br>
a no-longer-working remote control, for example.<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks for any tips/info!<br>
-WD<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can offer a couple things other than what is in this thread. There is a guy on e-bay selling used used HDPVR2s for I think $80, but they are bare bones--no power supply or cable for component video input. Had to buy a 6V-2A power supply from Amazon and the cable from Hauppauge. I was able to get it installed and working on 18.04/Myth 31 using John H's compiled code and John P's config instructions. </div><div><br></div><div>I wasn't sure exactly what John P was referring to re fixes/31. I did not apply any fixes, just installed latest distro of 18.04. I actually started with xubuntu 20.04 but had problems with screen-timeouts that I couldn't resolve. Tried ubuntu 20.04 but it crashed right after install during the update process. My mobo is like 10 years old so I suspect there may have been some hardware incompatibilities. Went to 18.04 and it installed smoothly.</div><div><br></div><div>...except there is this problem with the install hanging in some cases due to a faulty os-prober. See <a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/511289/ubuntu-18-04-server-installation-gets-stuck-at-66-while-runningupdate-grub/600231#600231">here</a> for a workaround.</div><div><br></div><div>If you go up to myth 31 note that XMLTV is a <i>big change</i> for the listings grabber, and there is a learning curve. Whereas before you just entered your schedules direct id/pw in mythtv-setup, now the grabber is a whole thing you have to install and configure. If you decide to upgrade check thread "XMLTV setup can't run mythtv-setup as user mythtv" for helpful info on getting it working.</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>