[mythtv-users] CETON InfiniTV 4 PCIe with Tuning Adapter

[Krys Allen]

Did you resolve this issue? I see the same thing in my log...

krys at Opti745:/tmp$ tail -f /tmp/ctntad.log
mocur -> ta: 59 bytes
ta -> mocur: 31 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 12 bytes
ta -> mocur: 17 bytes
mocur -> ta: 4372 bytes
ta -> mocur: 133 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 9099 bytes
mocur -> ta: 38 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 17 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 17 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 17 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 17 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 17 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 17 bytes
ta comm error 1
reset ta
reset done
ta comm error 0
usb reset complete finished
mocur -> ta: 59 bytes
ta -> mocur: 31 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 12 bytes
ta -> mocur: 17 bytes
mocur -> ta: 4372 bytes
ta -> mocur: 133 bytes
mocur -> ta: 7 bytes
ta -> mocur: 9099 bytes
mocur -> ta: 38 bytes



On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 10:33 AM, William Korb <korb at qisc.com> wrote:

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> On 04/14/2013 01:35 PM, Kris Jensen wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:38 PM, William Korb <korb at qisc.com
> > <mailto:korb at qisc.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Myth Users,
> >
> > I have just installed a CETON InfiniTV 4 PCIe in my backend with a
> > CableCARD from Charter. I was able to get the card paired, and tests
> using
> > mplayer as described in the README show that I am receiving programming
> and
> > it can be viewed.
> >
> > Another package on the vendor's Linux page was Tuning Adapter Drivers,
> > including the ctntad command. Charter uses SDV extensively in my area, so
> > it is imperative that I get this working in my installation.
> >
> > After some mucking about (downloading, building, and installing various
> > libraries that are required by ctntad) I was able to get it compiled and
> > installed, and running it with the --list-tas option shows the TA
> supplied
> > by Charter:
> >
> > 6# ctntad --list-tas Starting ctntad 0.2.0 Found Motorola Tuning Adapter
> on
> > bus 4 address 2
> >
> > I then took a WAG and just ran ctntad with no arguments (since
> > documentation is extremely sparse, I didn't know what else to do) and it
> is
> > doing *something*, but I don't know if it's actually doing what it's
> > supposed to. Here's the output:
> >
> > 10# ctntad Starting ctntad 0.2.0 found ta on bus 4 addr 2 root device
> found
> > type: 'urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaRenderer:1' root device found
> type:
> > 'urn:schemas-cetoncorp-com:device:SecureContainer:1' mocur found paired
> > 'uuid:89333102-EBE5-11D8-AC9A-000008068490' and 4:2 octa_enable was 0
> > OCTAInit 1 mocur -> ta: 0 bytes ta comm error 0 octa init complete ta
> comm
> > error 1 reset ta reset done usb reset complete finished ta comm error 0
> > mocur -> ta: 59 bytes ta -> mocur: 31 bytes mocur -> ta: 7 bytes root
> > device found type: 'urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1'
> >
> >
> > I am running the ceton_cci_scanner.pl <http://ceton_cci_scanner.pl> Perl
> > script that Ron Frazier wrote (thanks Ron!) to see what channels are
> > available in my area, and I'm wondering if that is the source of the
> > periodic "mocur -> ta" & "ta -> mocur" output.
> >
> > Since none of this is in the MythTV wiki page dealing with this card, I'd
> > like to enhance the documentation by adding a section on using the itv4
> > with a TA, so any insight that can be offered would be much appreciated.
> >
> > If there's any existing documentation on this, I haven't been able to
> find
> > it, so if you know of any, I'd appreciate a link.
> >
> > Thanks, Bill _______________________________________________ mythtv-users
> > mailing list mythtv-users at mythtv.org <mailto:mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> > http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> >
> >
> > -
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I use a InfiniTV 4 PCIe but I do not require the tuning adapter. So I
> don't
> > have any real working knowledge about using the tuning adapter.
> >
> > However from what I have read about using the tuning adapter (from what I
> > remember) is all that is required after successful building “ctntad” is
> > putting it in a init script to start up.
> >
> > I think “ctntad” well need to start after the Ceton drivers/service start
> > up and the card has an IP address and before MythTV service start up.
> >
> > I hope that of some help.
> >
> >
> > Kris.
> >
>
>
> FYI, I got this working by writing an RC script for my Ubuntu 12.04 BE.
> I've
> already had one out-of-list inquiry about that, and helped that user. As
> there
> may be other interest in this, I added a section to the Ceton InfiniTV4
> wiki
> page, including the RC script I wrote for my Ubuntu 12.04.2 BE.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Ceton_InfiniTV_4#Using_a_Tuning_Adapter
>
> Enjoy. ;-)
>
> Bill
>
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