[mythtv-users] An idea for one of the firewire problems

[Adam Propeck]

Who is the cable provider you're using? I haven't noticed this with Charter
really. Granted I just got mine setup recently.

On 1/8/06, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gentlemen, I posted this to the dev list, but haven't gotten a response, I
> feel it might have been "lost" in the thread to the uninterested.
>
> I'm hoping its a trivial thing to do, I'm just not equiped to do such a
> change
> and am hoping one of you might be able to whip something together in a few
> minutes for me to test.
>
> One of the issues I'm tracking as part of my firewire "project" is why the
> DCT62xx series misses recordings sometimes. Now that I finally got my
> DCT62xx
> capturing via firewire (added a second cablebox), I think I may have found
> a
> way around the problem. Most people said they had to unplug the cable from
> the box and plug it back in to "reset" it, which is something I found as
> well. Jeremy suggested I use gscanbus to reset the bus instead,
> wonderfuly,
> his suggestion was spot on allowing me to not have to crawl behind my home
> theatre equipment anymore. I've "tested" this method of fixing quite a few
> times as I find the connection gets lost at least once a day, and usually
> everytime no signal is collected from the box for ~2hrs.
>
> I was wondering if one of you could whip together a patch that
> will force a reset on the Host(Port)/Node that the firewire connection is
> on
> before every recording and every entry into LiveTV?
>
> This may also help channel changes, so perhaps placing the bus reset
> before
> Myth changes the channel would be a good place for this step to go.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Steve
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