[mythtv-users] Note about Verizon FIOS cable cards

Aaron aaron at rb303.net
Sat Jul 14 04:47:41 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Scott Chevalley <avalon at osguru.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 07/13/2012 05:22 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Jerry Rubinow <jerrymr at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Scott Chevalley <avalon at osguru.org>
>> >>>
>> >>> That doesn't make sense to me. Cablecards are 1 way devices and don't
>> >>> rely on internet access. Furthermore, they don't even have the
>> >>> capability to be networked. So what is relying on the router? Is it
>> >>> the tuning adapter (though that shouldn't affect the channel linup)?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Or does FIOS actually have a coax cable output from the router to go
>> >>> into your cablecard devices?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This.  The Actiontec sucks program guide info off the network cable and
>> >> injects it onto the coax.  I used to have problems with having to
>> >> reboot the
>> >> Actiontec because it would periodically destabilize my lan, so I
>> >> stopped
>> >> using it a long time ago.
>> >
>> > I don't think that's quite right.
>> >
>> > Yes, it's true that the Verizon cable modem/router does suck the guide
>> > data off and spit it back out via coax to all the Verizon STB's, but
>> > that's guide data, not channel data.  The HDHR Prime or other cable
>> > card devices have no access to the guide data at all, only the channel
>> > map, which is something completely different.
>> >
>> > Eric
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>> I thought exactly the same thing until I lost all my channel info on all 3
>> cables cards until I rebooted the router.  You can see the channel list if
>> you
>> go to the HDHomerun Prime's web page and click on Channel Lineup (I think
>> that's
>> what it's called).
>>
>> Before rebooting the router I only saw channel 97, and immediately after
>> rebooting the router I saw all my channels again, and I could immediately
>> go to
>> a frontend and watch live tv where as before I kept getting "invalid
>> virtual
>> channel number" in the backend log file.
>>
>> If it's not the router I would, from just a curious point of view, be
>> interested
>> in knowing why rebooting the router did fix it.
>>
>> Scott
>
>
> I have no idea why it wasn't working until you rebooted, but I haven't had
> an Actiontec on my network since long (years) before I got my Cablecard, and
> I have no problem seeing the channel lineup on the HDHR Prime's web page.
>
> If you don't use your STB (or don't use the program guide on it), I'd ditch
> the Actiontec.  Those things are nasty.
>
> -Jerry
>
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I concur with this. I also don't have my Actiontec connected (also,
agree they are nasty), and have had no problems with my HDHR's +
Cablecards.


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