[mythtv-users] Stabalizing Firewire?
David Frascone
dave at frascone.com
Tue May 8 18:06:32 UTC 2007
Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 5/8/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
>
>> Steven Adeff wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/8/07, David Frascone <dave at frascone.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've noticed that firewire support is flaky at best. But -- I still
>>>> need it for premium highdef channels.
>>>>
>>>> So -- Does anyone have any ideas how to stabalize it? I'm thinking
>>>> reboot it and my backend every once in a while. But -- how can I tell
>>>> when the backend is idle?
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking of an algorithm something like this:
>>>>
>>>> If it is between 2:00AM and 4:00AM
>>>> And, there are no recordings scheduled in the next 15 minutes
>>>> then
>>>> Turn off STB.
>>>> Reboot
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> (Part of my mythbackend startup script turns the STB back on.)
>>>>
>>>> The only other thing I can think of is to modify my turn-on script to
>>>> run firewire_tester to make sure we have ptp connectivity working.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So -- if the above algorithm is sound:
>>>> How can I tell if there are recordings pending? Play with SQL in the
>>>> script?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> are you running SVN?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Yesterday, it wouldn't let me tune to any channel on firewire. When I
>> ran plugreport, I got only errors .. . . the firewire connection had
>> "disappeared". When I rebooted the box (the myth backend, not the STB),
>> everything started working fine.
>>
>
> sounds more like a driver/hardware issue than a myth issue. might want
> to check your kernel and system logs.
>
>
Something really screwy is going on -- I can't seem to schedule any
recordings on my firewire tuner. I have logs at
http://frascone.com/log.txt.gz (-v most). Does anyone see anything
wrong in the logs? (I'm trying to schedule recordings on mythweb. All
other tuners seem to record fine. But the firewire one (STB) is somehow
broked.
-Dave
--
David Frascone
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