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

mythtv . mythtv at harley-jones.co.uk
Fri Feb 8 16:46:05 UTC 2013


On 8 February 2013 16:39, mythtv . <mythtv at harley-jones.co.uk> wrote:

>
> On 8 February 2013 14:28, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Thanks guys....
>>
>> Just to let you know that I've had an exchange of emails with Jurgen who
>> wrote the original patch last year, he's written an update which has been
>> merged into the current git of V4L.  In theory if you build V4L yourself it
>> should all now work cleanly, I'll try it over the weekend and update here.
>>
>> Regards and have a good weekend.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, 8 February 2013, Andre Newman <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 8 Feb 2013, at 14:09, John Pilkington wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 08/02/13 09:12, Another Sillyname wrote:
>> >>> I've had a to post a new ticket as the old one is locked.
>> >>>
>> >>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11403
>> >>>
>> >>> On 8 February 2013 08:54, Another Sillyname <
>> anothersname at googlemail.com> 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.
>> >>
>> >> To answer the question you ask on the ticket:  running femon is just a
>> workaround for getting the tuner recognised initially.  After that it all
>> works as normal, without femon, at least in my experience.  The existing
>> ticket was closed because it's seen as an upstream problem, but it still
>> causes anguish.
>> >>
>> >> And I should add to my comments on the 290e that the kmdl I'm using
>> with the el6 kernel was last updated for driver changes in Nov 2011.  I
>> would expect recent mainstream kernels to work without add-ons.
>> >
>> > I am finding problems with the 290e in the standard Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0
>> kernels though many kernel updates, I get periodic glitches in all
>> recordings from this tuner. Upgrading to the 3.5.0 kernels in testing for
>> the Ubuntu hwe package fixes the problem completely, alternatively I have
>> tried running Ubuntu 12.10 also with 3.5.0 kernel which also works without
>> problems.
>> >
>> > A friend who runs a 290e also mentioned that the linux-media build
>> script has also been bad for the 290e up until the last few months.
>> >
>> > Andre
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>> --
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> For I have been running two Nova-TD USB tuners on my mythsetup with no
> problems for several years with Mythbuntu 11.04/MythTV0.24 on a Revo 3610.
>
> The only problems recently are since going to 12.04LTS/MythTV 0.25 (and
> now 0.26) in that after starting mythbackend the tuners fail to lock and
> only get a partial lock the first time and thus recordings/liveTV fail. If
> I go into liveTV and select each Input then from then on in they will lock
> just fine until the next reboot/mythbackend restart
>
> Martin
>

Correction...I was running Mythbuntu 10.10/MythTV 0.24 until I upgraded a
week or two ago

Martin
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