[mythtv-users] hdhomerun failure?

[Jeff Artz]

>Greg Woods wrote:
>> Just wondering if anyone has seen this. My HDhomerun has suddenly
>> failed. The symptoms are that it makes very choppy, pixelated recordings
>> with audio stutter. It's unwatchable. This started suddenly; one day it
>> was working fine, the next, it had gone bad.
>>
>> My PVR-500 is still working fine. The digital channels that the
>> HDhomerun gets are received fine by the Motorola STB and the TV's
>> digital tuner. The problem occurs on both tuners, one of which is
>> connected to the cable and the other to an OTA antenna. I have tried
>> rebooting the HDhomerun, all the network switches, and upgrading the
>> firmware on the HDhomerun, but nothing helps.
>>
>> Is my HDhomerun toast? I am tempted to order a new one to see if that
>> fixes the problem and return it if it turns out to not be the current
>> HDhomerun, but then I have to pay a restocking fee, and if the blasted
>> things are going to fail every two years, I might want to look for a
>> different HD tuner.
>>
>> Anybody else seen anything like this?
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>Have you checked the signal being fed to it?  Sounds like you signal is
>weak, which may or may not be the cause of th hdhomerun.
>

If you're connected to it using a network switch, I'd try another switch too 
and/or power-cycle the switch.  Sometimes they can cause issues.

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