[mythtv-users] HDHomerun problems

Jeff Clemens teedub303 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 16:32:33 UTC 2016


I'm not on cable, as I said in the original message, I'm using OTA (an
antenna, over the air, 8VSB, us-bcast).  The HDHomerun is able to scan
channels and lock to them from hdhomrun_config, but myth cannot do the same
thing...

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 9/1/2016 9:14 AM, Jeff Clemens wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I'm trying to get Mythtv back up and running.  I ran it years ago with a
>> hauppauge card back before digital TV, but when everything went digital, I
>> never upgraded my hardware.  I just recently acquired an HDHomerun, so I
>> thought I'd try to get Mythtv working again.
>>
>> I'm trying to run my backend on a Fedora 24 workstation, with the
>> frontend (which I haven't even gotten to yet) on a Dell Zino box.
>>
>> Anyway, The HDHomerun seems to be working according to hdhomerun_config.
>> I can do a scan, and it will find the channels that I normally can see on
>> my TV.  The problem is, when I do a scan from mythsetup, It locks on the
>> signal, but can't find the channels.
>>
>> I don't have cable, so I'm using us-bcast and 8vsb.  Any idea what I'm
>> doing wrong?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>
> Well, obvious stuff first. What cable system are you on? You need to see
> how they're setting the copy-once flag. Comcast, where I am, is pretty
> liberal about it and does not set the flag. Charter on the east coast, I'm
> told, sets *everything* copy once. You cannot use copy-once channels with
> an HDHR Prime and Myth.
>
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