[mythtv-users] Two tuner sticks unstable together - need help

[Steve Smith]

Just to let you know if eit does become a problem again there is a
method to get the data outside me myth. It's called tv_grab_dvb_plus,
it takes a bit of config to set it up but it does the trick.


On 10/20/10, Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Hi to all
>
> "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld at gmx.ch> writes:
>
>> Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> There appeared to be some EIT activity that was duplicated.  You might
>>> try shutting EIT scanning off on the cards and channels temporarily.
>>> Then turn it back on one (if required.)
>>
>> I think you've got it. I had set up both cards to request EIT data.
>> Yesterday evening, I once again reconfigured both sticks and deactivated
>> EIT for the second one (the problematic one). What then happened is
>> stunning. This morning when I tested what had happened over night, I
>> found the second stick still working, but now the first one had
>> vanished. That never happened before. I think we can infer that EIT is
>> the or part of the problem.
>>
>> Now I let the second card look up the EIT data and deactivated it on the
>> first one, to see what happens. Up to now it's working since 7 hours
>> (what is a record).
>
> Yes, that was indeed the whole problem. Meanwhile my setup is stable
> since Sunday. I even added a third DVB-T stick and have three sources
> now.
>
> Apparently only one source should request EIT data. I didn't know that
> and have never read that. It's not quite clear to me if I made an
> obvious mistake or if this is a bug. I thought every source needs to
> scan for EIT autonomously, but that's not necessary as the EIT data of
> one source is passed on to the other sources. And obviously scanning for
> EIT data with more than one card can cause problems.
>
> I thank all of the kind persons who helped me on the way. I would never
> have found the problem on my own.
>
> Greetings
>
> Sven
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