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

[Damian]

On 20/04/2017 11:20, John Pilkington wrote:
> 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

Hi John,

When I tested last night, I removed the 2 USB tuners that I usually use 
and deleted them from MythTV. I then rebooted with the 292e tuner and 
set it up as the only "DVB-T/S/C, ATSC or ISDB-T tuner card" (should I 
have selected a different card type? I looked at all of the options and 
it seemed to be the best fit)

I then scanned with that freshly set up capture card.

So, it could only have been scanning with the tuner that was installed.

Damian