[mythtv-users] Ceton Infinitv USB issues

michael helmer micmizer at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 15:39:51 UTC 2013


Hi Krys,

Yes I tried that last night as well and received a "Unable to open device".

--
Michael


On Feb 26, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Krys Allen <allen.krys at gmail.com> wrote:

> have you tried 192.168.180.3 for your backend setup? I cant access my house right now but for some reason that seems like what I used.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:07 PM, michael helmer <micmizer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guess i spoke to soon. Updating to the latest Beta firmware for the Ceton USB and running back through the python client I am now able to capture the stream!
> 
> Not entirely sure what changed but unfortunately MythTV is still not capturing the stream. What is odd about it is once i have run MythTv i can no longer capture the stream with the python script until i reboot the Ceton. This may very well be why it never worked before (Me starting Myth and never rebooting afterwards). As soon as MythTV attempts a recording the program information disappears and I am unable to tune any channel from the Ceton Webpage. I am using 192.168.180.1-RTP.0 in the backend setup.
> 
> I can see the rtp session getting created when I try to watch Live TV in Myth:
> 
> @bun2:~sudo /bun2/bin/infinitv_usbd 
> 
> Starting infinitv-usbd 0.1.0
> found infinitv (/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.2/usb1/1-5)
> rtp setup 0
> rtp destroy 0
> rtp setup 0
> rtp destroy 0
> 
> MythTV still complains about no recorder...
> 
> 2013-02-25 21:56:30.964048 I  TVRec(10): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2013-02-25 21:56:30.968921 I  TVRec(10): HW Tuner: 10->10
> 2013-02-25 21:56:31.095688 N  AutoExpire: CalcParams(): Max required Free Space: 3.0 GB w/freq: 14 min
> 2013-02-25 21:56:37.368771 E  TVRec(10): PauseRecorder() called with no recorder
> 2013-02-25 21:56:37.373417 I  TVRec(10): HW Tuner: 10->10
> 
> 
> Current testing is being done on Ubuntu 12.10 so I may try my 12.04 installation tomorrow.
> 
> --
> Michael
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:06 PM, michael helmer <micmizer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been sticking to MCE at the moment as everything is functional (except when i configure networking tuners). Oddly this does not work in MythTV or using the python script in Linux. When using the default configuration the USB tuner IP is 192.168.180.1 while the rest of my local LAN is 192.168.0.xxx. 
> 
> Ceton provides a "network tuner" configuration option in Windows which bridges the Ceton device to your local LAN. In this case the USB tuner has an IP address on my local LAN i.e. 192.168.0.8. This does not work in Windows.
> 
> In both cases the the source port is 43012 and the destination port is 5001.
> 
> Just thought i would clarify. The behavior is odd and I cannot explain it.
> 
> --
> Michael
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Ronald Frazier <ron at ronfrazier.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 5:28 PM, michael helmer <micmizer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wow... I clearly missed "infinitv_usbd is the user space linux driver for
> > the Ceton InfiniTV USB." in the README. I foolishly just did the
> > configure/make/make install. =/ Thanks Allen for pointing that out!
> >
> > I am unfortunately still unable to watch/record TV in MythTV. I have also
> > tried capturing the infinitv client stream with netcat and that is still
> > producing 0 byte files. The last week I have been trying to get network
> > tuners working in Windows MCE and I havent had any luck with that either.
> > Normal tuner configuration works great though! My end goal would be to have
> > network tuners working in MCE so I can record copy once shows and have 3
> > tuners presented to MythTV.
> >
> > In Windows I know the traffic is there on the wire as I captured a wireshark
> > trace and can see all of the UDP traffic going to port 5001. When I run the
> > client.py in Linux and capture on lo I am seeing some bizarre malformed
> > packets and destination unreachable for ICMP on the local 127.0.0.1.
> >
> > This loops forever:
> > 1    0.000000    192.168.180.3    192.168.180.3    YAMI    1370
> > [Malformed Packet]
> > 2    0.000245    127.0.0.1    127.0.0.1    MPEG TS    1358    Source port:
> > 43409  Destination port: irdmi
> > 3    0.000264    127.0.0.1    127.0.0.1    ICMP    590    Destination
> > unreachable (Port unreachable)
> >
> > It sure seems like a network issue or something blocking these ports. In
> > windows I uninstalled all antivirus software and disabled the firewall and i
> > see the same behaviour. The same is true for my Ubuntu box.
> >
> 
> 
> Stick to either trying to get it working in myth (or using the python
> script) with it installed on your linux box, or in WMC with it
> installed in your Windows box. The reason I say that is, I think
> you'll have a bit of difficulty getting it working between systems. By
> default, the Ceton is on it's own subnet that is separate from your
> LAN. Thus the RTP packets will never leave the local system. With the
> PCIe version, you need to bridge the 2 interfaces together and
> configure the Ceton with a custom IP address on the same subnet as the
> rest of your LAN. Not sure if that's any trickier to do with USB
> version or not. And I haven't the slightest clue how to do that under
> windows.
> 
> So in short....you'll want to avoid all of that mess until you are
> positive your hardware works and the cablecard is provisioned
> properly. Then you can start thinking about the more complex
> configuration.
> 
> --
> Ron Frazier
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