[mythtv-users] HD-PVR power cycling

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Dan Wilga
> <mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:
> > On 5/4/11 2:53 PM, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com
> >> <mailto:redpepperracing at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:21 PM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com
> >>     <mailto:george.galt at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>     > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Gavin Hurlbut
> >>     <gjhurlbu at gmail.com <mailto:gjhurlbu at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>     > Gavin:
> >>     >
> >>     > If you are looking for orders, I'll take one.
> >>
> >>     Me too please.
> >>
> >>     Thanks
> >>     Tom
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Cool.  I'll get a little webpage up for it in a day or two, and
> >> hopefully send rev 1 of the boards off to China to get made.  I need
> >> to find a faster (but still cheap) alternative to batchpcb.com...  3
> >> weeks turnaround can be somewhat annoying.
> >>
> >> What caused me to just DO IT...   I got about 10 zero-byte recordings
> >> during the day yesterday because my HD-PVR once again decided to take
> >> a vacation.   Grrr.  So, I'm scratching the itch :)
> >
> > Has anyone made any progress on figuring out what the real reason for
> > this issue is, in the first place? Is it the device firmware, or the
> > software on the Linux side? Do Windows users have the same problem?
> >
> > I think it makes more sense to try to solve the issue than to spend time
> > on a clever (but still fallible) workaround. The lockup problem is the
> > sole reason I haven't bought one or two PD-PVRs. If my wife were to miss
> > Dancing with the Stars due to a zero-length recording, I'd be in deep
> > kaka :-).
>
> I haven't actually run into the problem yet, but I've only been
> running my HD-PVR in 'production' for a couple of weeks.
>
> Tom
>
>
I've been lucky, I haven't had the issue in about a month <knocks on wood>
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