[mythtv-users] Anyone using multiple HVR-2250's?

Mon Aug 20 17:10:49 UTC 2012

Hi all,

Thanks in advance for your advice.  I've had a stable myth box for a few years now.  About 18 months ago I got an HVR-2250 and installed it next to my existing HD-2000 and HD-5500, and everything has worked great.  I decided to increase the number of tuners in my box, so this week I added a second HVR-2250.  

Unfortunately, mythtv doesn't seem to be able to tune the new card.  Things generally look like they're loading up OK to me in dmesg, with identical messages for both cards.  My old (existing) 2250 still works fine, but the new one doesn't seem to tune in mythtv, though the devices/nodes seem to be created fine.

My question is (a) is anyone on this list using 2 HVR-2250's; and (b) are there any special tricks to making the configuration work correctly?

Thanks,
John

A few initial details:

[root at numbernine etc]# uname -r
3.4.7-1.fc16.x86_64

[root at numbernine etc]# rpm -qa | grep mythtv-0.25.2
mythtv-0.25.2-287.fc16.x86_64

[root at numbernine etc]# ls -la /dev/dvb*
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root  160 Aug 20 12:04 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 3780 Aug 20 12:04 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 Aug 20 12:04 adapter0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 Aug 20 12:04 adapter1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 Aug 20 12:04 adapter2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 Aug 20 12:04 adapter3
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 Aug 20 12:04 adapter4
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 Aug 20 12:04 adapter5

[root at numbernine etc]# dmesg | grep saa7164
[   11.863151] saa7164 driver loaded
[   11.868074] CORE saa7164[0]: subsystem: 0070:8851, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 [card=7,autodetected]
[   11.868080] saa7164[0]/0: found at 0000:04:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 18, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfb400000
[   11.978021] saa7164_downloadfirmware() no first image
[   11.978032] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Waiting for firmware upload (NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw)
[   12.036935] saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware read 4019072 bytes.
[   12.036938] saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware loaded.
[   12.036947] saa7164_downloadfirmware() SecBootLoader.FileSize = 4019072
[   12.036953] saa7164_downloadfirmware() FirmwareSize = 0x1fd6
[   12.036955] saa7164_downloadfirmware() BSLSize = 0x0
[   12.036956] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Reserved = 0x0
[   12.036958] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Version = 0x1661c00
[   18.603041] saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
[   18.704030] saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
[   20.430031] saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
[   22.656064] saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
[   22.701594] saa7164[0]: Hauppauge eeprom: model=88061
[   23.265298] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   26.526050] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   26.528656] saa7164[0]: registered device video3 [mpeg]
[   26.759191] saa7164[0]: registered device video4 [mpeg]
[   26.970601] saa7164[0]: registered device vbi2 [vbi]
[   26.970724] saa7164[0]: registered device vbi3 [vbi]
[   26.975110] CORE saa7164[1]: subsystem: 0070:8851, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 [card=7,autodetected]
[   26.975122] saa7164[1]/0: found at 0000:05:00.0, rev: 129, irq: 17, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfbc00000
[   27.085033] saa7164_downloadfirmware() no first image
[   27.085050] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Waiting for firmware upload (NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw)
[   27.132567] saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware read 4019072 bytes.
[   27.132575] saa7164_downloadfirmware() firmware loaded.
[   27.132595] saa7164_downloadfirmware() SecBootLoader.FileSize = 4019072
[   27.132606] saa7164_downloadfirmware() FirmwareSize = 0x1fd6
[   27.132610] saa7164_downloadfirmware() BSLSize = 0x0
[   27.132613] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Reserved = 0x0
[   27.132617] saa7164_downloadfirmware() Version = 0x1661c00
[   33.807029] saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
[   33.908041] saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
[   35.638025] saa7164_downloadimage() Image downloaded, booting...
[   37.860031] saa7164_downloadimage() Image booted successfully.
[   37.908416] saa7164[1]: Hauppauge eeprom: model=88061
[   38.454250] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   41.206252] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   41.207961] saa7164[1]: registered device video5 [mpeg]
[   41.442820] saa7164[1]: registered device video6 [mpeg]
[   41.658036] saa7164[1]: registered device vbi4 [vbi]
[   41.658162] saa7164[1]: registered device vbi5 [vbi]
[root at numbernine etc]# dmesg | grep adapter
[   11.669954] i2c i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x2d00
[   12.233590] DVB: registering new adapter (bttv0)
[   12.267241] DVB: registering adapter 5 frontend 0 (Oren OR51211 VSB Frontend)...
[   12.456246] DVB: registering new adapter (cx88[0])
[   12.456250] DVB: registering adapter 4 frontend 0 (LG Electronics LGDT3303 VSB/QAM Frontend)...
[   23.265298] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   23.265317] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   26.526050] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   26.526061] DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   38.454250] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   38.454265] DVB: registering adapter 2 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   41.206252] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7164)
[   41.206268] DVB: registering adapter 3 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...

[root at numbernine etc]# cat /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf 
#pcHDTV5500
options cx88_dvb adapter_nr=4 debug=0
options cx8802 debug=0
options cx88xx ir_debug=0

#Hauppauge HVR-2250
options saa7164 adapter_nr=0,1,2,3 debug=0 fw_debug=0

#pcHDTV2000
options dvb_bt8xx adapter_nr=5 debug=0