[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 11:32, Damian wrote:
> 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

Sounds convincing.  No muxes seen at all?  Re-check RF connections - and 
than perhaps dispose of in compliance.... :-)

John