[mythtv-users] Help with dual PVR250's & UDEV

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Dave,

Monday, February 16, 2015, 1:04:56 PM, you wrote:

> -----Original message-----
> From:Dave Pearson (Lists) <lists at the-pearsons.co.uk>
> Sent:Mon 16-02-2015 12:01
> Subject:[mythtv-users] Help with dual PVR250‘s & UDEV
> To:mythtv-users at mythtv.org; 
>  

> Hi,

>  
> I've currently got 2 backends with a PVR250 in each. Each PVR250 is
> connected to a different Set Top Box via the composite port and uses
> a different channel change script. I want to put both cards into the
> master backend, but I need to be sure that each card always has the
> same name, so that the correct channel change script is assigned to the correct card.

>  
> In advance of this I've been playing with UDEV rules to try and
> give the PVR250 in the master back end it's own unique name (such as
> /dev/pvr250-1), but I haven't been able to come up with a rule to do this.

>  
> I guess what I'm looking for is a rule that will name the card, based on which PCI slot it is in.

>  
> Can anyone help with a rule to do this, I'm running ubuntu 14.10?

>  
> Thanks,

> Dave.

> 
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>  


This works with PVR350 and PVR500:

# Hauppauge PVR500 mpeg2 encoder
# pci/vendor id 4444:0016 / 0070:e807/e817 
# driver ivtv
SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", \
        KERNEL=="video*", \
        ATTR{name}=="ivtv? encoder MPG", \
        ATTRS{vendor}=="0x4444", \
        ATTRS{device}=="0x0016", \
        ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0xe807", \
        SYMLINK+="v4l/PVR500/mpeg0"
SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", \
        KERNEL=="video*", \
        ATTR{name}=="ivtv? encoder MPG", \
        ATTRS{vendor}=="0x4444", \
        ATTRS{device}=="0x0016", \
        ATTRS{subsystem_device}=="0xe817", \
        SYMLINK+="v4l/PVR500/mpeg1"

# Hauppauge PVR350 mpeg2 encoder
# pci/vendor id 4444:0803 / 0070:4000 
# driver ivtv
SUBSYSTEM=="video4linux", \
        KERNEL=="video*", \
        ATTR{name}=="ivtv? encoder MPG", \
        ATTRS{vendor}=="0x4444", \
        ATTRS{device}=="0x0803", \
        SYMLINK+="v4l/PVR350/mpeg"

But this would be identical for both. If you want to distinquish them
you have to do that by their pci slot. I have two PVR500's
The one has KERNELS=="0000:05:05:0" and the other "0000:05:06:0 on
their parent device. So add that.

You can check with:
udevadm info --attribute-walk --path $(udevadm info --query path --name=/dev/video0)

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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