[mythtv-users] configuring HDHomerun channels

[Greg Woods]

How do you do it? 

So far I have been unable to make the HDHomerun work. hdhomerun_config
works and looks good:

# hdhomerun_config 1010013D get /tuner0/status
ch=qam256:627000000 ss=98 snq=80 seq=100 bps=38809216 pps=0

And I have installed the latest firmware:

# hdhomerun_config 1010013D get /sys/version
20061008

I just downloaded and compiled the SVN sources (so that I can get QAM
support). 

And I can run a channel scan from within mythtv-setup, and signals are
very strong (none of them below 94%) and it finds quite a few channels.
So I believe the hardware is good and the signal strength is good. It
has to be a configuration issue.

The channel numbers also show up as something like 93#3 whereas this is
probably channel 501 or some such in the Zap2it lineup (I know there's a
conversion algorithm somewhere). Thus the guide has no data for these
channels. I could correct the channel numbers manually if I have to (a
long, tedious process) if I could ever tune to them in the first place.
But if I hit "Watch TV", the backend immediately crashes and the
frontend just displays a little "Error displaying video" box. I can't
get past this. The backend log shows:

2006-10-12 18:19:47.372 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
2006-10-12 18:19:47.409 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-10-12 18:19:47.418 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.1
2
2006-10-12 18:19:47.422 Current Schema Version: 1161
Starting up as the master server.
2006-10-12 18:19:47.432 New DB connection, total: 2
2006-10-12 18:19:47.434 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.1
2
2006-10-12 18:19:47.437 EITHelper: localtime offset -6:00:00 
2006-10-12 18:19:47.442 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-10-12 18:19:47.443 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.1
2
2006-10-12 18:19:47.489 EITHelper: localtime offset -6:00:00 
2006-10-12 18:19:47.525 EITHelper: localtime offset -6:00:00 
2006-10-12 18:19:47.527 HDHRChan(       0/0), Error: Invalid DeviceID
'10100013D
'
2006-10-12 18:19:47.528 HDHRChan(ffffffff/0): device found at address
192.168.1.
186
2006-10-12 18:19:47.544 New DB scheduler connection
2006-10-12 18:19:47.545 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.1
2
2006-10-12 18:19:47.548 Main::Starting HttpServer
2006-10-12 18:19:47.554 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
2006-10-12 18:19:47.560 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060915-1
www.mythtv.org
2006-10-12 18:19:47.560 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
2006-10-12 18:19:47.561 AutoExpire: Found 3 recorders w/max rate of 216
MiB/min
2006-10-12 18:19:47.566 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.7 GB w/freq:
5 min
2006-10-12 18:19:49.557 Reschedule requested for id -1.
2006-10-12 18:19:49.854 Scheduled 47 items in 0.3 = 0.16 match + 0.14
place
2006-10-12 18:19:49.858 Seem to be woken up by USER
2006-10-12 18:19:56.947 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-10-12 18:19:56.954 adding: confusion.gregandeva.net as a client
(events: 0)
2006-10-12 18:19:56.955 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-10-12 18:19:56.955 adding: confusion.gregandeva.net as a client
(events: 1)
2006-10-12 18:20:07.556 AutoExpire: ERROR when trying to autoexpire
file: /video/1945_20061012180516.mpg. File doesn't exist.  Database
metadata will not be rem
oved.
2006-10-12 18:20:12.845 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-10-12 18:20:12.850 adding: confusion.gregandeva.net as a client
(events: 0)
2006-10-12 18:20:12.851 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Monitor
2006-10-12 18:20:12.851 adding: confusion.gregandeva.net as a client
(events: 1)
2006-10-12 18:20:12.858 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2006-10-12 18:20:12.859 adding: confusion.gregandeva.net as a client
(events: 0)
2006-10-12 18:20:12.861 TVRec(3): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-10-12 18:20:12.866 TVRec(3): HW Tuner: 3->3
2006-10-12 18:20:13.985 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1945
2006-10-12 18:20:14.095 Finished recording Unknown: channel 1945
2006-10-12 18:20:14.187 Preview Error: Previewer file
'/video/1945_2006101218201
2.mpg' is not valid.

And that's it, the backend is gone. The frontend log shows:
2006-10-12 18:20:04.731 Starting media monitor.
2006-10-12 18:20:12.844 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.12:6543
(try 1 o
f 5)
2006-10-12 18:20:12.845 Using protocol version 31
2006-10-12 18:20:12.857 TV: Attempting to change from None to
WatchingLiveTV
2006-10-12 18:20:12.857 Using protocol version 31
2006-10-12 18:20:12.985 DPMS Deactivated 
2006-10-12 18:20:13.003 NVP: Disabling Audio, params(-1,2,44100)
2006-10-12 18:20:13.014 VideoOutputXv: XvMCTex: Init failed
2006-10-12 18:20:13.015 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video
Overlay'
2006-10-12 18:20:14.260 Event socket closed. No connection to the
backend.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.577 TV: Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2006-10-12 18:20:14.578 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-10-12 18:20:14.579 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
192.168.1.1
2
2006-10-12 18:20:14.579 Using realtime priority.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.585 MythSocket(a28ddb8:-1): writeStringList: Error,
socket w2006-10-12 18:20:14.585 MythSocket(a28ddb8:-1): readStringList:
Error, called wi
th unconnected socket.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.585 RemoteEncoder::SendReceiveStringList(): No
response.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.589 NVP, Error: Unknown error, exiting decoder
2006-10-12 18:20:14.591 MythSocket(a28ddb8:-1): writeStringList: Error,
called wi
th unconnected socket.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.592 MythSocket(a28ddb8:-1): readStringList: Error,
called wi
th unconnected socket.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.592 RemoteEncoder::SendReceiveStringList(): No
response.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.601 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingLiveTV to
None
2006-10-12 18:20:14.601 MythSocket(a28ddb8:-1): writeStringList: Error,
called w
ith unconnected socket.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.601 MythSocket(a28ddb8:-1): readStringList: Error,
called wi
th unconnected socket.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.601 RemoteEncoder::SendReceiveStringList(): No
response.
2006-10-12 18:20:14.681 Video timing method: RTC
2006-10-12 18:20:17.247 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.12:6543
(try 1 o
f 5)
2006-10-12 18:20:17.247 Connection timed out.        


I'm clearly missing some steps in configuring the capture card, but I
can't find any documentation that would point me in the right direction.
Anybody have one of these things working that could help out?

Thank you,
--Greg