[mythtv-users] s2-3600 problems upgrading to Ubuntu trusty HWE

[Kai T. Hillmann]

Am 11.02.2015 um 17:08 schrieb Hika van den Hoven:
> Hoi Kai,
> 
> Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 4:35:27 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Hello John,
> 
>> Am 11.02.2015 um 15:30 schrieb John Pilkington:
>>> On 11/02/15 13:39, Kai T. Hillmann wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> first of all i've been using mythtv for a long time now (+5 years) and i
>>>> really appreciate this great piece of software and want to thank the
>>>> developers a lot for their great work!
>>>>
>>>> Actually i've got some issues when upgrading from kernel 3.8 (ubuntu
>>>> 12.04) to kernel 3.13 (newer HWE as 3.8 is deprecated) with my two dvb
>>>> s2-3600 cards. Weird thing here is that tuning some channels which
>>>> previously worked can not be tuned any longer with an error:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Feb 11 13:46:26 hostname mythbackend: mythbackend[2929]: W TVRecEvent
>>>> recorders/dvbsignalmonitor.cpp:97 (DVBSignalMonitor)
>>>> DVBSigMon[1](/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0): Cannot count Uncorrected
>>>> Blocks#012#011#011#011eno: Operation not supported (95)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Even more strange is that tuning this channels with kaffeine does work.
>>>> I'm currently on Ubuntu 12.04 (x64) with mythtv v0.27.4
>>>> (2:0.27.4+fixes.20150116.3b43903-0ubuntu0mythbuntu1), any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> One dvb-s transponder which can not be tuned any longer with mythtv is:
>>>>
>>>> Satellit: ASTRA (1L)Orbitalposition: 19,2°
>>>> OstFrequenz: 12.544 MHz
>>>> Polarisation: horizontal Transponder: 107
>>>> Symbolrate: 22.000 Ms/S
>>>> Fehlerkorrektur (FEC): 5/6
>>>>
>>>> A while ago i've tested also installing a complete new version of
>>>> mythbuntu 14.04.1 to ensure that this is not a problem with my older
>>>> 12.04 install or any upgrading issue.
>>>> But sadly this doesn't solve the problems - it remains the same there -
>>>> tuning this transponder with kaffeine works without any problems -
>>>> tuning with mythtv fails - so i'm not sure where to search the reasons.
>>>>
>>>> I hope that someone has a hint where to look to solve this issue.
>>>
>>> You might try issuing 'mythbackend --setverbose none,channel' (with the
>>> backend already running) and see what the backend log says when you try
>>> to tune the missing channel.  Since kaffeine works and myth doesn't it
>>> seems likely that some of the stream parameters aren't set in the myth db.
>>>
>>> Afterwards, 'mythbackend --setverbose general'
> 
>> I tried this - result is here : http://pastebin.com/jh2by1aq but i'm
>> actually not sure how to interpret the entries..
> 
>> I found out that the transport id, network id and service id are the
>> same used in kaffeine.
> 
>>>
>>> I don't run dvb-s; does the mythtvsetup 'channels' section have
>>> something that allows you to rescan a single transponder?
> 
>> I'm not sure whether this can be done but as i also tried to set up a
>> completely new system as mentioned (mythbuntu 14.04.1) with a completely
>> new dvb-s channel scan, this doesn't seem to fix the problem.
> 
>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> John P
>>>
>>>
> 
> As I interpret the log, it tunes OK. So there is a problem later.
> Since you have upgraded your kernel, so also the driver I suggest
> looking there. Look if there are issues with this driver at
> http://linuxtv.org and see if you can find another version maybe.

As far as I know the driver shouldn't be the problem when kaffeine still
works for all transponders with the new driver...

> 
> 
> Tot mails,
>   Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com
> 
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> 
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