[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HVR-1800 with basic cable

[George Galt]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Peter <pf1234 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>  > I just bought a new PC that happened to come with an Hauppauge HVR-1800
>  >  card in it. Since it was there I thought I would try to get it working
>  >  with Ubuntu and MythTV. Then I saw
>  >  http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppage_HVR-1800, which says that
>  >  only digital input is supported with NTSC "coming soon". That apparently
>  >  was last updated December 2007... any progress yet? I only have a basic
>  >  cable service.
>  >
>  >  I am able to get the card recognized and a channel scan apparently works
>  >  (at least the numbers count up from 2). I am using the latest v4l via
>  >  mercurial.The modules seem to load okay:
>  >
>  >  cx23885[0]: i2c bus 0 registered
>  >  cx23885[0]: i2c bus 1 registered
>  >  cx23885[0]: i2c bus 2 registered
>  >  tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 78521, rev C2E9, serial# 2868679
>  >  tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-2B-C5-C7
>  >  tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips 18271_8295 (idx 149, type 54)
>  >  tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88)
>  >  tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23887 (idx 42)
>  >  tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23887 (idx 37)
>  >  tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has no IR receiver, has no IR transmitter
>  >  cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=78521
>  >  cx25840' 2-0044: cx25  0-21 found @ 0x88 (cx23885[0])
>  >  cx23885[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
>  >  cx25840' 2-0044: unable to open firmware v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
>  >  cx23885[0]: registered device video1 [mpeg]
>  >  cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
>  >  ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
>  >  PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
>  >  MT2131: successfully identified at address 0x61
>  >  DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
>  >  DVB: registering frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
>  >  cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb1
>  >  cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:03:00.0, rev: 15, irq: 17, latency: 0, mmio:
>  >  0xfe800000
>  >
>  >  When I select Watch TV I just get a blank screen.
>  >
>
>  I would tune it external to mythtv (using the v4l apps) and see if you
>  get output.
>
>
>  John
>
>
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I've considered this tuner myself, and am about to take the leap.  I
found this posting that gives directions for getting the analog tuner
working (it's about halfway down the page)
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=178654&page=3&pp=15.
You need a **very** recent kernel.

George