[mythtv-users] [SOLVED-ish] Thinking of moving on from MythTV ... I found the main problem, but still have 292e woes

Damian myth at surr.co.uk
Thu Apr 20 09:58:42 UTC 2017


On 20/04/2017 10:44, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 20/04/17 10:23, Simon Hobson wrote:
>> Damian <myth at surr.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> I solved my MyhtTV problems last night! :-)
>>>
>>> It turns out that my 4 way TV amplifier had died.
>>
>> Ah, (almost) the old basic of "check the cables first". Good you've 
>> found the problem.
>>
>>
>>
>>> One thing that is frustrating, but I'm just going to live with it, 
>>> is the realisation that the HD tuner I bought a year or two ago just 
>>> doesn't work on Linux. Maybe it would work with some tinkering and 
>>> manually installing drivers, but we don't value TV content to the 
>>> same extent as we do film content, so we'll just live with the SD 
>>> resolution that my two SD USB tuners provide.
>>>
>>> The HD tuner in question is a PCTV TripleStick (292e). I've read 
>>> that it should work, but it simply doesn't.
>>
>> Can't help with that, but long term it's worth persevering to get a 
>> T2 capable tuner working. It's clear that the plan is for any new 
>> muxes to be T2, and to move everything to T2 eventually. So over 
>> time, I expect T2 incapable tuners to get fewer and fewer channels - 
>> though I imagine they'll keep a core of base channels going for some 
>> time.
>>
>
> I don't have a 292e but support for it was added '19 months ago' to 
> Master.  What version are you running now?
>
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12342
>
> John P

That's what I understood myself before buying it, but it's not working 
for me.

Not sure of version numbers of anything at the moment, but I'm running 
the latest stable version of Xbuntu and the latest stable version of 
MythBuntu on top of that.

MythTV 'finds' the USB tuner (I can select it in setup), but a channel 
scan provides nothing! Doesn't even flicker to 1% at any point.

Damian


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