[mythtv-users] Questions about conversion from analog to digital recording (PVR500 to Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH)

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Peter Bennett <cats22 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 1. It gets hot enough to peel the label off. I stand it on a small fan
> which keeps it nice and cool, although others say that is unnecessary.

While I have no personal experience, I understand their
internal cards ran hot too.  Note that it is perfectly OK
to run hot, as long as it is within the thermal profile.
Human fingers, on the other hand, might not enjoy a
60 degree (Celsius) encounter.

> 2. There is a memory leak in the firmware. I reboot the Ceton once a
> week. If you don't do that it runs out of memory after a month or two,
> and may hang or reboot itself.

Somewhere I think someone posted the magic to reboot....

Here is what I saved away (intended as a cron entry running
once a week during the midnight hours):

    /usr/bin/wget --timeout=5 --tries=1 --post-data="cmd=reboot"
http://<IP>/command.cgi </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1