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

[Another Sillyname]

To anyone else who hits this problem.

The author of the original patch, Juergen Lock, has had it
incorporated into the upstream version of V4L starting at version 3.6.

I compiled and installed the current version 3.9 yesterday and it's
fixed the problem, so if you get a similar problem the quick fix is
compile the git version of V4L and it should fix your problem too.
Obviously how to compile V4L is covered on it's website so I won't
cover it here.

Thanks to everyone for all the help and advice.



On 8 February 2013 16:46, mythtv . <mythtv at harley-jones.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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>>
>> 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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