[mythtv-users] Arris DCX3200M-P3 and firewire on Shaw

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

On 13/10/15 15:50, glen wrote:
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> geary mail - arch linux
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> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Stuart Auchterlonie
> <stuarta at squashedfrog.net> wrote:
>> On 12/10/15 17:08, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
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>>     The Arris DCX3200M-P3 I got from Shaw seems to have its firewire
>>     ports enabled, from the box's diagnostics, and the fact that I can
>>     use the 6200ch channel-changer (with mods) and test-mpeg2 captures
>>     content. Is this enough of a test to suggest Myth can record from
>>     this box over firewire? https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/6200ch says I
>>     should update firewiredevice.cpp and I've had at look at it and it
>>     does seem to need updating in a couple spots to recognize the box.
>>     This leads me to believe that I can't use firewire recording
>>     without patches. I'm on Fedora 22, using Myth 0.27.4 from
>>     RPMFusion. Do I have to wait for patches to percolate up to
>>     RPMFusion or is there a way I can patch and compile the parts I
>>     need? Or should I bite the bullet and move away from RPMs to
>>     compiling Myth myself? 
>>
>> I've pushed a change to master to hopefully support this device. Is
>> anyone running master that can test this before I back port it to 0.27
>> ?? Please report success / failure / missing id's to
>> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12524 Regards Stuart
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> can you also add this another variant of dcx3200M
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> vendor_id = 0x006455b1 model_id = 0x00002322
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Done, it's in master now. Again would appreciate if somebody was able
to test.

I can make a patch to apply to fixes/0.27 if that helps

Regards
Stuart