[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HVR-4000

[Stephen Robertson]

2009/11/26 Erwin Panen <erwinpanen at fastmail.fm>:
> Stephen,
>
> Thanks for replying.
> Within MythTV - not far at all :-(
> -     I'm working on two separate setups each residing within their own hd
> partition to keep things separated.
>        Actually my goal is to get this to work with LinuxMCE, hence Kubuntu
> 0810 based.
>        As I seem to also run into LMCE specific problems, I want to get it
> working on a stock Kubuntu 0810 too.
> -    What do I have?
>        I used liplianin drivers but am open to change to whatever will make
> this work.
>        With the liplianin drivers in place, the firmware gets loaded, and
> the card is properly registered. (dmesg)
>        From that point: Kaffeine will see dvb:0 and dvb:1 and will
> successfully scan dvb:1 (dvb-t) for channels.
>        So Kaffeine viewing works with audio and image.
> -      With dvb-utils -> scan I have managed to scan for channels >
> channels.conf
>        I put this file in ~/.tzap/channels.conf but seem to be unable to get
> this information into MythTV.
> -      Next when installing mythtv v0.21 I need to put in place a fake
> /dev/adapter1 next to existing /dev/adapter0
>        all /dev/adapter/0/***1 devices are symlinked to the new fake
> /dev/adapter1/***0 device.
>        Startup mythtv-setup gave me the usual quirks (admittedly I'm not a
> MythTV expert (yet :-) )
>        When entering capture cards, I can select the DVB DTV Capture card
> (v3.x)
>        with the symlinks in place, I can then change to DVB device: 1
>        And here it ends.
>
> At the moment I'm even delving into how to modify settings directly into
> mythconverg database.
> I have webmyth installed too, so this can also help to make adjustments.
>
> So resuming:
> I'm looking for how to link /dev/dvb/adapter* correctly into mythconverg
> and looking for how to get my channel.conf into mythconverg
>
> If you need more information, let me know.

I know nothing about LinuxMCE so this may not be appropriate but is
there a reason why you couldn't try kubuntu 9.10 with MythTV 0.22?
With this combination it works without any extra drivers,symlinks,
channel.conf importing or database fiddling. (Well it did for me!)