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

William Korb korb at qisc.com
Sat Jun 8 15:33:25 UTC 2013


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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
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> 
> -
> 
> 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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