[mythtv-users] Hauppauge Nova-TD-500 fails, "DiB0070 I2C read failed"

[Dan]

2010/8/8 Jason Chambers <lists at purplish-monkey.com>:
> On 08/08/2010 16:50, Dan wrote:
>>
>> Thanks. Yes, they're identical (it's a dual-tuner card) and originally
>> they were both on the same source. However, as recommended earlier on
>> in this thread, I now have them separate sources so that one takes the
>> EIT from the transmitted guide and one doesn't, which prevents an
>> instability issue. I don't think there's a way I can do that without
>> having them on separate videosources?
>
> I think what Nick was referring to was the "Use DVB Card for active EIT
> scan" tick box (under "Recording Options" of "2. Capture Cards" in
> mythtv-setup.
>
> Its on by default I believe, so you just needed to turn it of on all but one
> of your physical tuner cards. (And remember to do this each time you delete
> & re-create you cards for any reason!).
>
> You seem to have taken this a step further and separated out the video
> sources too, which I'm not sure was necessary, but then I gave up with EIT a
> long time ago so I may have misunderstood.

Thanks, you're (both) right. I thought I had done what was suggested
but was outwitted by the config screens ;) so thanks for spelling it
out.

Having done it this way, myth is now happy to schedule two recordings
at once, and hopefully the stability is still there too.

Thanks
Dan