[mythtv-users] Ceton Infinitv USB issues

Tue Feb 26 20:48:08 UTC 2013

ill take a look at my mythbackend tonight and verify.. if the infinitv_usb
service is finding the device then I would imaging that the issue lies
within mythbackend.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:39 AM, michael helmer <micmizer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Helmer
>>>
>>
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