[mythtv-users] Starting channel w/pcHDTV3K

Tom E. Craddock, Jr. sigtom at sigtom.com
Sat Jan 29 00:57:10 EST 2005


Hey,

Ive installed my pchdtv in one of my slave backends.  Its running FC2 
with the stock kernel that comes on the FC2 install discs, and running 
mythtv from cvs as of tonight (just checked it out and built it, my 
master backend is a CVS from 2 nights ago). I also tried to use the CVS 
rpms from atrpms. I have scanned with dtvsignal and dtvscan, know I have 
the pchdtv card installed correctly, can get a good signal on my loca 
UPN channel, in the database its 44_1,  I get a signal of about 90% from 
the cmd line dtvsignal /dev/dtv 59 (44_1=59 freq) so I know its a good 
chan.  I set that as my starting channel in the slave backends, am able 
to start and connect the slave backend to my master backend, but no 
matter what I try the starting channel is 3,  heres what I get.

$ Running as a slave backend.
2005-01-29 00:54:07.381 Channel(/dev/dtv): CheckChannel failed. Please 
verify channel "3" in the "setup" Channel Editor.
2005-01-29 00:54:07.385 mythbackend version: 0.17.20050128-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-01-29 00:54:07.385 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-01-29 00:54:08.592 Connecting to master server: 192.168.1.22:6543
2005-01-29 00:54:08.596 Connected successfully


channel 3 isnt even a valid channel for that card, its not listed 
anywhere in the channel editor for that video inputs channels.  It 
starts at 8, then 8_1, 8_2, .....44_1. Heres the signal I get for that 
channel (44_1)

dtvsignal /dev/dtv 59
main: argc 3 argv[1] /dev/dtv
channel 59
freq*16 = 11860
main: ioctl 1 rtn 0
main: ioctl 2 rtn 0
dtvsignal ver 0.2 - by Jack Kelliher (c) 2002
channel = 59 freq*16 = 11860
Signal:           |    .    :    .    |    .____:____.____|
Signal: 091 $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

I just cant get myth to use 44_1 as the starting channel.  Is there 
something Im missing?  Anyone have any tips? If so, please let me hear 
from ya.  TIA.

Tom


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