[mythtv-users] Problems with Hauppauge Nova-TD Dual Channel Diversity USB Stick (aka Elgato TD Diversity)

[John Pilkington]

On 08/02/13 08:54, Another Sillyname wrote:
> Right Chaps
>
> It does appear to be that bug (I'll be re-opening it shortly)
>
> Running femon allowed me to get the device recognised but I can't get
> a 'stable' lock with any permutation of LNA on or off and femon
> running or not running while running the backend and then frontend
> trying to tune into a channel.
>
> Sometimes I'll get lucky and it'll tune, sometimes not.......I haven't
> yet worked out which is the best combination and some muxes seem more
> likely to tune then others, as I said in my previous posting if I use
> VLC I get every channel first time no problem (and I didn't have to
> turn LNA option on in modprobe.d).
>
> My only other option is the 290e DVB-T2 HD USB stick (if I have to buy
> something I might as well buy the HD version), however I remember a
> while back it wouldn't swap from HD mode to SD mode without a modprobe
> reload, if I remember it was a driver issue.  Does anyone know is that
> now working properly.

I have no such problem with my 290e, now running 0.26-fixes under SL6 
with kmdl from ATrpms, but I did have failed recordings with it when I 
used a Freeview repeater transmitter;  some of the mux IDs weren't 
populated by the scan and had to be inserted manually.  On main 
transmitters a scan starting with the HD mux gets everything in one go. 
  See Ticket #10217.
>
> By the way the version of myth from the Ubuntu repos is 25.1 fixes,
> any chance 26 has fixed my problem with the existing Hauppauge NOVA-TD
> Dual Diversity sticks?
>
> Thanks for the help and suggestions so far.
>
>
>
> On 7 February 2013 20:00, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7 February 2013 10:13, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:
>>> On 07/02/13 05:14, Another Sillyname wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As I'm doing this for a mate as a favour I don't want to end up
>>>> haviing to buy kit if I can avoid it, especially as the device works
>>>> under VLC without any issues.
>>>>
>>>> I will look at the myth logs tonight when I go back but thought I'd
>>>> throw it up here to see if anyone could shed some insight before I get
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/10830#comment:13 perhaps?
>>
>> My first thought as well :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick