[mythtv-users] Firewire changes in 0.21 (trouble)

[Justin Nolan]

Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> What does running "plugreport" tell you?  Do you see a device  
> attached?

Yes, plugreport sees the box at adaptor 0, node 0 and with the same  
GUID that myth-setup is automatically detecting.

But thank you, since that led me down the right path. I finally got  
the backend to recognize the box (outside of setup) by changing the  
firewire ownership to mythtv. Beyond this, it appears that the  
firewire priming script now included with mythtv is HARDCODED FOR NODE  
1. In the mythbackend script, I also needed to remove the if statement  
in the prime_firewire function to get the script to run at all (how/ 
where do you set enable firewire to true?).

I ended up getting it working using the old tried and true priming  
script found here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MythTV_Firewire).

There are definitely a lot of strides getting firewire working for  
most out of the box in .21, but it's going to be very hit or miss. I  
imagine it must be universal that /dev/raw1394 needs to be owned by  
mythtv instead of root--or is that just a mythbuntu oddity?