[mythtv-users] Question while trying to setup a HDPVR

[Adam Jimerson]

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Ok so I just bought a HDPVR to connect my satellite box to my Mythbox,
so far everything is going well, I was able to cat /dev/video0 to a .ts
file and had both video and sound with out having to update any firmware
on the PVR (on the bottom of the box it says that it is a "Rev F2").  I
got if setup in myth for the most part but the trouble I have is during
trying to set up the IR Transmitter and have several questions...

1. Following the directions on the Myth's wiki for the device step for
for adding the HD-PVR to MythTV says "Important Note: You must set a
channel change script for the HD-PVR to work properly. If you don't care
about channel changes, you can set it to /bin/true, but there absolutely
must be a channel change script defined."  I would like to have myth be
able to change the channel on my satellite box but what scripts is it
referring to?

2. I have Lirc and the Lirc utilities package installed on my distro
(Arch Linux) and upon starting lircd it sees the HD-PVR but I don't see
a hardware.conf anywhere on my system, I tried using locate but it seems
to not exists is this a problem?

3. When checking dmesg the output of lirc_zilog is confusing:

[107355.768180] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 249

[107355.768685] lirc_zilog: module is from the staging directory, the
quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[107355.769772] lirc_zilog: Zilog/Hauppauge IR driver initializing

[107355.770554] lirc_zilog: probing IR Rx on Hauppage HD PVR I2C (i2c-6)

[107355.770560] lirc_zilog: probe of IR Rx on Hauppage HD PVR I2C
(i2c-6) done. Waiting on IR Tx.
[107355.770568] lirc_zilog: probing IR Tx on Hauppage HD PVR I2C (i2c-6)

 107355.770711] i2c i2c-6: lirc_dev: driver lirc_zilog registered at
minor = 0
[107355.795975] lirc_zilog: firmware haup-ir-blaster.bin not available
(-2)
[107355.796070] lirc_zilog: ir_probe: probing IR Tx on Hauppage HD PVR
I2C (i2c-6) failed with -2
[107355.796083] Zilog/Hauppauge i2c IR: probe of 6-0070 failed with
error -2
[107355.796126] lirc_zilog: initialization complete

 I take it by the fact that I only have a /dev/licrd and no /dev/lirc0
that it failed?  If so is this a problem with the firmware on the PVR or
a issue with the drivers for the IR Transmitter I didn't compile them
manually just using the ones packaged by Arch (I didn't see any
instructions on the wiki for it...)
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