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

[John Pilkington]

On 20/04/17 10:58, Damian wrote:
> 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

I'll quote(ish) from another recent post:  Any good?

  I use the Transport Editor to set
  8 MHz B/W, DVB-T2 and QAM256 for the T2 muxes

Was your scan using the DVB-T2 capable tuner.   'dmesg | grep adapter' 
should identify them, and myth lets you select before setting up the scan.

John