[mythtv-users] HVR-2250 Tuner Not Available

[Barry Martin]

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Hi Curtis!

Thanks for the quick reply!


> Half-know the 'missing' tuners (2-4) are due to failed installation
> attempts
Yes, this is correct.  When I've wanted to get rid of these in the past
I went into the backend and "deleted all tuners" regardless of system.
This will give you a clean state to start with.

Had done that and had a heck of a time getting the original HVR-1600 card 
(adapter0,frontend0) working again.  I'll be a 'chicken' and leave 
things ugly!!




I'm not exactly sure what has gone wrong with your installation.  I've
build three PVRs with dual HVR-2250 (not 2255) cards and these have
worked well for me.  I wrote a tutorial on how I did it.  
http://gedakc.users.sourceforge.net/display-doc.php?name=pvr-install-mythbuntu1404


Very nice tutorial!!  Glanced over and redid/added a few sections which
seemed appropriate:

At "I.  Enable the Capture Card".  Before doing anything I checked to
see if the NXP7164*.fw file was there,  Is.  Figured it was as my checks
in the original post seem to indicate was OK; redownloaded and copied
and rebooted.  Still unavailable.

At "K. Install TV, DVD and HDD Utilities".  Installed LeafPad and
IVTV-UTILS. Latter identified as "TV Tuner Utilities" - maybe fixes
something?!  Nope.  (And at this point no idea where that utility
appears - I'm at the Desktop with Terminal running.)

Continued on to  "L. Ensure Full Boot Up After Power Off" because even
though the Backend is on a UPS the power can be out for longer than the
battery.  Edited grub.  The sudo update-grub command gave me warning:
"Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is
set is no longer supported."  Not sure if this is something you should
be aware of.


One thing I remembered while typing up there someplace is in MCC both
cards aren't listed.  Comes up fine _within_ #2 Capture Cards, but at
the screen which appears after selecting #2 Capture Cards I see:
    Capture Cards
    (New capture card)
    (Delete all capture cards on MythFE1)  [which is the name of the
Frontend portion, not the Backend portion]
    (Delete all capture cards)
    [DVB:/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0]

Is that right or significant of something??  Not seeing the HVR1600
(adapter0/frontend0) listed seems odd, or (probably!) the first half of
the HVR-2250 (1,0) listed (in brackets, not parenthesis) might be trying
to tell me something.  (The second half hasn't been started.) 

#4 Video Sources lists the HVR1600 and HVR2250a (again, the second half
hasn't been started).

#5 Input Connections lists 
    Input Connections
    [DVB:/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0] (DVBInput -> HVR2250a

(The Channel Editor lists the stations found during the earlier scan
step.)

OK, bugged you enough with the trivia!  Thanks for helping!

Barry
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